LIME JUICE
CORDIAL
Watson's
LIME JUICE
CORDIAL
A product of the finest
West India Limes.
$1.00
Per Bottle
A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.
NEW REX RECORDS
which will
interest you
8731 OLD SHIP O' MINE (Ardon)
Primo Scala's Accordeon Band SONG OF THE LIFT (Evans)
Primo Scala's Accordeon Band SORRENTO BY THE SEA ...... Troise & His Mandoliers SPANISH GYPSY DANCE (Marquina)
8591
Troise & His Mandoliers
8729
8730. WHITE CLIFFS OF DOVER-Fox Trot
MOON FOR SALE-Fox Trot LOVE IS A DANCING THING--Fox Trot
Casani Club Orchestra .Casani Club Orchestra
"Whiz'
PRODUCTS OF THE HIGHEST
QUALITY
For the proper dressing which your car deserves!
The following are available
at all our Garages and Service Stations:-
LONDON COACH WAX POLISH AND CLEANER METAL POLISHI
RADIATOR CLEANER
WHITE TYRE FINISH
AUTO TOP & TYRE DRESSING KHAKI DRESSING
WHEEL BEARING, LUBRICANT UNIVERSAL JOINT LUBRICANT GEAR LUBRICANT
AUTO OIL SOAP RADIATOR STOP LEAK NEAT'S FOOT COMPOUND.
HONG KONG HOTEL GARAGE
Showroom
Tel. 27778/9
The
Stubbs Road
Hongkong Eelegraph.
TUESDAY, MAY 12, 1936.
Wanted:
A Chinese
Mark Twain
SIR SHOUSON CHOW
Shares Some Laughs
LASZLO
with.
SCHWARTZ
Six Shouson Chowr
THERE is a story told tinise it as it drew from me about Goethe that he when I tried to fathom it, not only as a mere human face, but could read with an uncanny as the symbol of a swiftly. precision a man's life story changing great civilisation that by studying his face. How has given us such wonderful I longed for just a brief heirlooms in the Arts and in Literature. What I record here Dossession of that gift when of our heart-to-heart talk is I came face to face with the but a faint echo of the fine ho- Hon. Sir Shouson Chow! mun message with which he humour than the fact that no longer see sobe of the Alas, even after all these
enriched my life.
whilst our old classic plays were Western customs and institu- "Has the revolutionary years of making a life study modern spirit in China brought losing dignity, in our modern instance, I have many a good very solemn affairs, never once tions with Eastern yes. For of the human face, I can in its wake a greater apprecia- plays a comedian is about as internal as well as external fathom no further than to tion of humour?" I asked.
indispensable as whisky and laugh over your fashionably "Decidedly. tell the difference between when we compare the cult of day's work is done.
yes, especially son to a Scotsman when his dressed ladies, and wonder the face of a man who has humour of our days with bye-
when and where they will draw lived a full life and those gone ages. The Chinese scholars modern plays, for every genera-
"I have no objection to these the safety zone limit.
"All people, at times fail to the majority--who
of old cultivated humour about tion should express its own life, appreciate a humorous situa have
as diligently as the Eskimos its own aspirations and its own tion, or are unconscious of it, ETHIOPIA AND only existed. To use the cultivate the manufacturing of tragedies. But I do object to when they are in one. Take the
EUROPE.
vicious patois of the carica- fans. Things humorous and the hybrid presentation of our story of the husband who had turist, we call the latter ridiculous were not considered classics when costumes of the always boasted that in his home There has been a tendency "mushroom mugs."
worthy of their genius. That is Ming period Intely to treat the Ethiopian
are worn in the he was the master, and nit his why, although China has pro- same scene as those of to-dny, wife-a silly thing in itself for, Some day, when our educa- duced as great a literature as and when the original classical even if you think you are, won't question
the
situation tional systems will devote more the Classics of the West, never- Chinese is interlarded with jeopardise the position by talk- created by Germany's re-occupa time and brain maiter to the theless she has never been present-day colloquial. It is ing about it in public. This tion of the Rhineland as two study of Life in its fuller sense, blessed with
a Mark Twain, just about as preposterous as if foolish chap riled her ladyship OLD SHIP O' MINE-Fox Trot....Casani Club Orchestra wholly distinct problems which the study of the human face Voltaire, Saphir, or a Wode one heard Shakespeare rendered one day and was driven uner
will be taken at least as serious- house. That does not mean a in 20th Century slang. SHE SHALL HAVE MUSIC-Fox Trot
bear no relationship to one an-¡
the bed with a rod. She coh- ly as our researches. into the total lack of humour in the Jay Wilbur & His Band other. One result of this ten- matrimonial inventories WHY DID SHE FALL FOR THE LEADER OF THE BAND? dency was seen in a recent sug- King Solomon, the time wasted at all. The people have always Chinese humour?" I asked.
of Chinese people as a race.
"What is the outstanding manded him: Come out t Not difference between Western and once! That was the last thing Fox Trot
..Jay Wilbur & His Band gestion in some quarters which in memorising the
the world he wanted to do jus length of had a sense of humour, and EENY MEENY MINEY MO-Fax Trot
went the length of advocating Amazon River, and the number though at times they may lack answered Sir Shouson, with a 'Nothing of the sort. I'll stay "Now you have me cornered," then, so he shouted at her Johnny Johnson & His Orchestra the calling off of sanctions of petticoats worn by Helen of the ability to express it as effec- smile, "for most of my educa- right there. I'll show you who is I FEEL LIKE A FEATHER IN THE BREEZE-Fox Trot
the humorists of tion was gained in the West and the master in this house!' What Johnny Johnson & His Orchestra against Italy in order that Italy Trey when she first flirted with tively as
Paris. When thal 8724 WALTZES ROUND THE WORLD
Utopian Western civilisation, neverthe- my continuous association with does it prove? That sometimes might join in applying sanctions chapter is recorded, I fervently less they can certainly ap- Europeans has undone Primo Scala's Accordeon Band against Germany. The absur-hope that Sir Shouson Chow's preciate every bit of it."
my the Chinese unconsciously, turn ability to diagnose this.correct- a 8725 MUSIC HATH CHARMS Film Selection
grim situation into dity of such a step has been portrait will evoke as sincere
ly. That does not mean that I humorous one. tribute from the Primo Scala's Accordeon Band fully realised by the British and silent a THANKS A MILLION-Film Selection.
Primo Scala's Accordeon Band CHARLIE KUNZ, PIANO MEDLEY NO. R-13
Charlie Kunz
8721
Casan Club Orchestra MOON OVER MIAMI-Fox Trot..Casani Club Orchestra SOME OTHE TIME—Waltz Jack Payne & His Band RHYTHM IN MY NURSERY RHYMES-Fox Trot
Jack Payne & His Band Casani Club Orchestra
8709 SYMPATHY-Waltz
8722
8723
8726
S. MOUTRIE & Co., Ltd.
York Building.
Chater Road.
The Lightweight Raincoat for the rainy
season.
"SYDDO"
WORLD FAMOUS
RUBBERLESS
RAINCOATS
$40.
Less 10%
DOUBLE TEXTURE THROUGHOUT
"SYDO" INCORPORATES ALL THE. LIGHTWEIGHT
ATTRIBUTES · OF POPLIN
WITH THE APPEARANCE OF
'A FINE SILKY GABADINE.
LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.
Men's Wear Dopt
Tel. 28151.
and
*
public, just as it has been clear millions of students who scru. HERE I that there is a fandumental]-
difference between marching NOTES OF THE DAY
troops into a province of one's own country and sending them over the frontier to attack neighbour with aerial bombard-
#
OIL IN BRITAIN
*
##
Interrupted. Sir Shouson Chow by paying a, tribute to Hongkong, which has given me more laughs and hu-j
morous stories within a few BOOTS: THEIR STORY
weeks, than I have gathered in my roamings through British
A
out incredible quantities of rain India, Burma, the Malay States BOOTS, boots bts
All day long they rattle. An in-water, or clinking along on knobs of An enormous amount of oil is and the Dutch East Indica dur- cessant stream of them-a world of iron-they all have their story to tell. ment and poison gas. But, al- used in Great Britain. It is ing the past two and a half boots alive, boats with personalities, Here is the little light pair which though that difference has been gallons, costing thirty millionformances, again and again my themselves understood.
estimated that nearly 2,000 million years.
boots with expressions as telling as Even at my school per- a child's, boots that talk-and make morning! They tap out their bright, comes along sharp at eleven every
ataccato song the song of a bird in
Now
manifest, there has been a ten-pounds sterling, are imported humorous bits are interrupted dency of late in Europe to for- every year. So far the only oil by an explosion of laughter long reluctant boots dardling to school, the apring, the song of youth and
Anxious boots hurrying to business, get the Ethiopian question produced has been that obtained before I come to the end of the breakfastless boots bent on catching hope I often wonder where they are simply because of the emergence cesses.
from coal by hydrogenation pro-itale. That identical story told ferries, boots which rebound with joying, but I have never found out. I rather fancy they meet another, of another problem neurer home. made to find and tap natural would almost serve as a narco-
an effort is to be to a school of Hindu children and boots which drug along so wearily rather larger pair of boots, over some that their sound is like a knell. "eleven's" at the corner shop, but Actually, the two questions are
sources. On March 30 drilling tic. But let Sir Shauson Chow with firm, assured tread, or stagger-
Boots, boots, boots Marching | they never come back my way. so closely interlocked as to be begin on the first test well to be sunk in England under the provi-
continue:
And there are those heavy, moun ing along to the tuno of a drunken tainous boots-stern boots that shake different aspects of the same sione of the Petroleum Act of "Nothing demonstrates more or scurrying furtively from door to They speak of law and order.
song-stepping delicately on tip-toe, the very foundations of my problem. France is concerned 1934. The plant has been set up convincingly the development of door in guilty haste; boots pumping over the re-occupation of the in less than two months, and
There are Rhineland because she regardsings erected with amazing speed.
roads have been made and build-
it as a threat to her "security". This pioneering effort to find oil SIDE GLANCES
She would not be concerned in England is being initiated by about it if she were perfectly the D'Arcy Exploration Company, a subsidiary of the Anglo-Iranian convinced that "collective secur-Oil Company. ity" was so strong as to rule out:
all danger of her being attacked. British manufacture and is capa- The oil-drilling plant is of Had she believed unreservedly ble of drilling to a depth of near- in collective security she wouldly three miles. Above the plant have been prepared to apply to a height of 135 feet, with a stands a great derrick reaching sanctions more drastically and loading capacity of 400 tons. more speedily against Italy. Power for the plant la supplied by She held back because she was four boilera with
a steaming hovering between a policy based pounds an hour at a pressure of capacity of more than 14,000 on collective security and one 260 poundis a Aquare inch. based on alliances. France The work of drilling the well may would benefit, as every other take two years and cost as much as £60,000. The enterprise, as country would benefit, from a Sir John Cadman, Chairman of feeling of heightened security if the Company, pointed out, is a the League of Nations could business venture based on selenti- show that it was strong enough fic observation. The test borings are proceeding on the slopes of to protect weak, nations from Portsdowa Hill, Ave miles from stronger aggressive. Powers, Portsmouth. This particular sito The proof of that would be the has been chosen as a result of greatest contribution yet made geological evidence obtained and, if the enterprise is successful, a to the achievement of collective new national industry will begin. security. It is impossible to dissociate this question of the protection of weaker Powers Eriopla brings that issue to the from the general question of politics. If there is any waver-
very. forefront of International) security in Europe. They are ing now, the League will not both part and parcel of the same only be for all intents and pur- task that of making the Lengue poses put out of business, but so strong that none would dare the whole principle on which it attack its authority. The situn- rests will be shattered once and for all and a return to the old tion created by the announce system of alliances made inevit- ment of Italy's annexation of able.
rooni.
By George Clark deliberate step, boats. which grind
"And the moon's surface contains about 14,667,000 square
miles, or nearly four times the area of Europe.'
Boots, bools, boots boots which scarcely seem to touch the ground, so lightly do they tread, boots which quiver liko jellies at each savagely on the stones, and boots which emile jauntily in a dozen places.
There are self-assured $1,000-a- month boots, clean and respectaule, without a care in the world, and there are mellow old boots of friendly aspect and aristocratie connections. There are patent boots with large in- comes and uneasy consciences, and bursting boots distorted by corn and banion.
non-
Boots, boots, boots.. Where are they all going 7 Many are descripts, passing out once on my sterious missions, but others come and go as regularly as the clock. There are boots going to be married, boots going to fail, boots going nowhere in particular, boots going anxiously for ` the doctor, boots chaffing at delay, boots hot with hurry..
to
Boots preordained to stand all day behind a counter, boots fated to be cut away by the surgeon's knife to re- lease a crushed body, boots destined come Into violent contact with Impudent people. There aro
boots tramping away their leather to have their fares, boots going far too many miles to work, and boota looking eternally for a job with the weariness of despair.
There are boots which stand for hours on end, and later come, away engry, bothered and thwarted, boots which go swiftly home to newly mar ried happiness, and boots which go fearfully in the face of domestic strife and tragedy. There are boots going to heaven, and boots going to hell.
Boots, boots, boots.".
There are boots going to the shops, boots going to hospital, boots going to court, boots going to the factory to make boots, boots, boots.....
W. Shepherd