WATCH FOR
Drake of
England
Coming Shortly to the Alhambra
CENTRAL
QUEEN'S RD: CENTRAL: CAR PARK-JERVOIS ST. Take Bus No. 4 or 5 going west, 3 min. from stop opposito Queen's
Commencing SUNDAY
ANOTHER DOUBLE ATTRACTION ON THE STAGE
ANOTHER FAMOUS CHINESE ACROBATIC TROUPE
Sensational Balancing!
Marvellous Acrobatic Tricks !
by
BEAUTIFUL CHINESE Girl AcrobaTS.
ON THE SCREEN
(First Showing In The Colony)
The moonlit. tropies...the lilting. strains of the rhumba, flashing dark eyes of irresistible senoritas romance...and the marines are coming! NAT LEVINE PRESENTS
WILLIAM HAINES
IN
THE
MARINES ARE COMING
CATHER
· CONRAD NAGEL · RÅLSTON ARMIDA
Tiew KENNEDY Course REGAS
and hundreds of others
A MASCOT PRODUCTION
Directed by DAVID HOWARD
COUNT THE "TELEGRAPHS"
EVERYWHERE
Mr. & Mrs. Y. Mori MASSAGE
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1936,
"Bacon was a Son of Queen Elizabeth
ISS ALICIA A. LEITHI
MISS
has
Just finished thirty years of A fascinating' quest; she has travelled in many lands' nud dolved into many libraries and atorchousca of ǝkl. Austy documents, to prove that Francis Bacan wrote the plays attributed to Shakespeare.
It is an old theme--but Miss Leith, who has long been a vice- president of the Bacon Society, has found new facts to support her "case."
"It is rather maddening to how the world is so blind," she anid to a reporter. "I am so sure of my facts that I don't mind. lecturing to an audience of 100 people about it. I have lectured in tonie and Florence and many ther places abroad where there in anmense interest in the problem." "But if ho wrote all Shakes- peare's plays why was Bacon ashamed to admit it?" asked the
reporter.
Mins Leith produced a picture of Henry VIII., and another of Bacon as a boy. There was cer tainly n curious resemblance— both rather fat, aggressive faces. Then a series of pictures off Queen Elizabeth and Bacon weraj placed side by side.
"Bacon was Queen Elizabeth's! Bound Henry VIII's grandson," Ass Leith declared.
shei
"And Queen Elizabeth," said, "did not allow her gallants to write poetry; she looked upon
it ns folly and amusement."
"Then, who was William Shakea. peare?" Miss Leith was asked.
"There was an uneducated boor| who went out catching deer," she replied.
IN PUBLIC-HOUSES
"He didn't go to school and he didn't learn to read. He came to London with an idea of his clever- деля in reciting, acting and dancing.
"The first theatres in London were public-houses, and they made excellent open-air theatres be- cause there was courtyard, and; people looked on from surround- ing windows and galleries.
"Bacon used to come to these publichouse plays, and there he found this young boor, Shakes- peare, who asked him to give him an Introduction so that he could
dance and sing, and so on."
That, says Miss Leith, gave
and Wrote Shakespeare" NEW
Giant mechanical shovel dit work at Broken Hill Propridory Company's quarries at Ironknob, South Australia.
LOCH NESS MONSTER'S
OFFICIAL DEBUT
Test Question for Civil Service Candidates
Bacon his idea of fathering the THE Loch Ness monster can raise its head again, having found plays on Shakespeare.
MERCILESS "SISTERS OF MERCY"
ORPHANAGE INQUIRY
SURPRISES
Strasburg, Apr. 10.
official recognition in Whitehall,
For two years, from the summer of 1933, when its discovery was reported, the monster basked in a blaze of fame. Then it shyly withdrew.
It reappears in the papers for the world's stiffest examination -for the Administrative Class of the Civil Service. Candidates
were recently asked:
What do you consider to be the probable explanation of the Loch
Ness Monster? Give your reasons
A capital letter, and no inverted commas, were used for the monster,
ed. Only an explanation quired.
W28 10-
HAPPENINGS that would seem whose existence is taken as establish
incredible were they not- borne out by sworn statements, have come to light in connection! with a children's home at Neuf Brisch, near here.
The care of the children was entrusted to alx "sisters" who were garbed as nuns and were believed to be Sisters of Mercy.
Primarily the home was for the care of children who wore trouble- some to their parents, but it extended its accommodation to orphans placed there by the State or by Masonic and similar bodies, as well as by private individuals.
SAVAGELY
BEATEN
Now a Commission of Inquiry de-i clares, that the children were suyage- by beaten with heavy leather thongs and with
scourges tipped with jagged
steel
points, punishment be. ing administered until the little ones, aged from seven to twelve years, were covered with weals.
A cellar of the home, to which access was gained by a narrow Indder, was used as a punishment cell. There the child had to stay in Inky darkness for hours without food.or heat and terrorised by the rats, Infesting the
cellar.
To make certain of higher profits the children were insufficiently clad and fed on scraps of food obtained from charitable people by the "sistera of mercy."
in fact nuns and had no right to the
DO YOU KNOW? The question appeared in the ob ligatory Everyday Science paper, Others were:
At a New York Lerminus a door to
"The platform opens as you approach- it, and shuts behind you, Suggest n device for securing this result, or describe that actually employed. Describe and explain the effects of
alcohol, beneficial and other, Illustrate the beneficent activities of
bacteria.
What is psycho-analysis, and what is
its importance?
Why do we believe that the earth rolates, and not that the heavens rotate round the earth? Describe the way in which a steam
locomotive works.
Illustrate the phrase "scientific agri-
culture."
In a recent story by Agatha Christie the delective remarks: "Both Lord and Lady Micheldever had blue eyes. When the consul said that their daughter hud flashing dark I knew that there was some- eyes thing wrong." Give some account of the scientific theory which the writer had in mind. Illustrate, in as varied a manner s possible, the practical value of scientific research conducted with no immediate practical aim.
LOW MARKS
A feature of the examination re- sults was the low marking of woman scored none of whom ecnt.
It has been established 'that, the candidates, Aerpuncture, Mozackusie and Bone Betting folder of Japanese and Hongkong Gavarn alleged "sisters of mercy" were not more the shadow of the monster far ment Léoancer. Curee Sprained Ankles and Mrials. Macommended for many yours by uniform they were. Prosecutions are away in Loch Ness fallen across their Local Howpital and Doct
4, Wyndham Street, (1st floor). Tel 26051.
to follow.
papers?
Youth Is Fighting
For Foot on Ladder
Thirty-four per cent of the youth in the United States to-day nce "out of work, out of school, or in relief familica."
on
The percentage is based statistics of the National Youth Administration. They show that of the 23,000,000 young people in US, hetween the ages of the 16 and 25, some 15,000,000 are "located" either in school or at work. The remaining 8,000,000 are members of relief familles and jobless.
It is also reported that appro- ximately 300,000 young people now on relief never have had a job.
International
The
Labour Office, in Geneva, estimates that of the more than 25,000,000 per- sons said to be unemployed in the world to-day one quarter are un. der 25 years of age.
Naked Woman Dead In Her Home
Oxford, Apr.-16. The naked body of Miss E. E. Raikes, of Five Mile-drive, Oxford, was to-day found in a dustfilled sitting-room of her home.
Miss Ralkes, who lived the life of a recluse, appeared to have been dead for some time.
on the floor. At the back of the head The body was lying stretched out
was a wound believed to have been caused by a fall.
REX
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RECORDS
GRACIE FIELDS, CHARLIE KUNZ, REGINALD DIXON, JACK PAYNE AND HIS BAND, CASANI CLUB ORCHESTRA, LARRY ADLER, MORTON DOWNEY AND MANY OTHERS.
COMPLETE LIST ON REQUEST.
TSANG FOÓK PIANO co.
9 Ice House Street,
Hongkong.
OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS
ACROSS
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1 Grim Fen tennis may be the re-
sult of auch violations.
8 Came back by Underground after making a first appearance. 9 Mountains.
11 Where the Maslein's pilgrimage
ends.
12 Sole bar (anag.).
14 A hat with a number in the sub-
ject of discourse.
15 It may hold water for over a hundred at the back of the boat. 10 Put down a card, there's nothing .on, only a vegetable like an
Artichoke.
18 One Bas to take a anw to this
Chinese delicacy.
21. A bishop.
22 What could be pleasanter?
24 Perhaps a butterfly did what the
smoker did up.
27 A catch that sounds all wrong to
a Scat (two words, 1, 4). 28. Jottings written backwards. 29"An infant-crying-in-the-night":
may be responsible for most of the noise. 30 The League is such a hody.
DOWN
2 Not so, Robert. He's rich. 3 Rate of neceleration,
That well-known but seldom seen colton cloth.
Erie goes all funny: but no won- der. See what he's swallowed. 6 No train has run on this line since railways were first built. 7 An excellent form of exercise, but don't go for one in another acaise.
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8 Fragility.
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10 An instrument that really first- class people don't like to pay (two words, 6, B).
13 Touch father for another loun
when he comes up.
17 My old one was never in Holland, 19 Placo in order.
20 The capacity of this vennol in
much reduced if one letter is. taken from its hold.
21 Animal.
23 There's "no col" in this Cam-
bridge suburb ̧ (anag.);
25 There is an old one, and a young one in "The Marchant of Venice." 20 Makes an A.I. bit—for a can--
nibalt
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【HIYAH, SAM! ・ (WELL, MY EARS ARE FROŽEN
GEEN WAITIN' (STIFE, MY DOGS ARE SOAKED, DINNER FER YA!) I GOT TH SUIFFLES, AN' YER HOW'SA Boy?.
HOUSE IS LIKE AN ICE-BOX!
(AW, WHY KICK, OH,
Yes JALL THE TIME?
WINTER'S HERE) THERE.
IS AN". "THERE'S [NUTHIN' YA KIN
I'M PACKIN' WHY UP AN' GOIN' PACK DOWN WHERE UP2
IT'S WARM!
JUST FOLLOW ME AN' WE'LL GO DOWN,
'AN' HUG TH FURNACE!
SHally
| DO ABOUT IT!