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His honeymoon le- nothing but a sleep- _walker's holiday!
Adolph Zuker presenta
MARY BOLAND CHARLIE RUGSLES "Early to Bed".
A foremount Picture with George Borbler Call Patric Robert McWade Directed by Nerman McLeod
TO-MORROW
ETHERN
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MONTE CARLO
WARREN WILLIAM DOLORES DEL RIO
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TOM WALLS RALPH LYNN
IN
FIGHTING STOCK
BY BEN TRAVERS
FROBERTSON, HARE Directed by TOM WALLS
SERITA
THE STORY OF A MAN OF PEACE WHO NEARLY BECAME A PIECE OF MAN
LA GAINSBOROUGH PICTURE
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DICK POWELL
RUBY KEELER in
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THE HONGKONG
CHINESE ART IN -HONGKONG
The Work of Six Artists
A visit to the third exhibition of the Chinese Fine Arts Club, of which the smaller plctures were
shown
TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, AUGUST · 15, 1936,
CHICAGO GAINS ON ST. LOUIS
BEATS CINCINNATI IN CLOSE GAME
under the auspices of the Hongkong N. Y. YAKNEES
Working Artists' Guild at the Glou cester Building last week, and the larger scrolls at the China Building. which is still available up to Sunday gives us an opportunity of turning om the usuari our thoughts away from
run of Hongkong entertainments. The origin of the Club is sketched in
work
bas
all
DEFEATED
New York, Aug. 14. The Chicago Cubs won to-day,
In-
SUMMARY OFFENCE
· ORDINANCE-
TWO AMENDMENTS BEING MADE
The Gazette contains the draft of an Ordinance to amend further the Summary Offences Ordinance, 1932.
Section (17). of Ordinance No. 40 of 1032 provides that every person shall be liable to a fine not exceeding $260 who, without lawful authority or excuse, in any public place posta up or exhibits, or causes to be posted up or exhibited, any notice or pro- clamation in the Chinese language without the permission of the Secret-
the preface to the catalogue, but I Demaree hitting a homer and may mention that the six men whose erensing the team's total of runs to
bren celebrated artists of modern China. They were all
pupils of the late had to bo content with Ave ruins on master-painter, Mr. Ko Ki-foon, twelve connections, including a whose untimely death a few years ago was mourned by many lovers of his homer by Scarsella. The St. Louis Cardinals were not in action, so the Cubs goin a little on the leaders of the moment.
displayed are a seven on iên hits, while Cincinnati Ary for Chinese Affairs or a District !
art.
Brooklyn beat Boston four to two,
Each had an error.
Omeer. This paragraph is not to apply to Government notices. The paragraph in question was taken from |paragraph (13D) of section 2 (b) of Ordinance No. 22 of 1930, which was repealed by section 32 of the 1932
Ordinance.
1931.
been
A magisterial decision in under the 1930 Ordinance, held that the distribution of n handbill in the Chinese language was "exhibiting a notice." Since nine hits to win.
then It has the practice to provide each dis- tributor of handblila with a chopped copy containing the approval which he could show to any police officer. A more recent magisterial decision under the 1932 Ordinance has heid that the distribution of handbills was not covered by the paragraph - question.
"A general knowledge of the history of Chinese Art through the long een- turies, and of the various movements of a thousand years of development, would really be bec
necessary for thorough appreciation of this most in spite of the fact that the club was modern movement, and of all that louthit. Boston hit ten and Lopez means. Figure painting is said to gave the team a homer, but the Reds have been fully developed as early bunched their as the Chin Dynasty, and it received a great amplification in the Targ period. The names of Ng To Tse, of Wong Wei, and of Lee Si-fun are still held in honour and connected with the beginning of the Northern and the Southern schools of landscape painting respectively. It was in the Sung and the Yuen Dynasties that the Chinese love of painting and pride in the art
renched its summit. Academies were established in the palace itself, and the painters of that day received every encouragement and impetus.
imitation
Castleman pitched for the Glants, allowing nine hits, but his mates kept the Philadelphlais from scoring a single run. The Giants' eight hits, on the other hand, gave them three counters,
GROVE IN FORM
Lefty Grove, Boston's grand old man, allowed only four hits to Washington Senators and the Red Sox won as they liked, hitting four teen to score nine,
nil
over
After the Yuen perlod, through the Ming to the Ching Dynasty there was
Philadelphin
swarmed д gradual declino, due to the fashion of imitating the masters of former New York Yankees, the leaders, days. Facility of
was scoring ten runs when Niemiec, Bob everything and originality entirely Johnson and Hayes homered. There secondary. One would not be, far were seventeen hils altogether. New wrong If one called that the Dark York hit ten and scored five times Glants had two of the tree errors. Age of Chinese painting.
The birth of the Chinese Republle: was synchronous with a new move ment in Art, which may be said to have come to life with the Revolu- tlon. Canton, which was the birth- became the
The object of Clause 2 of this amending Bill is to bring the distribu- within the tion of handbills again mischief against which the porn- graph is aimed.
Clause 3 of this Bill prohibits the unauthorised defacement of rocks or end-cuttings in or near any public place, The soft disintegrating granite of the Colony, through which most of its beautiful hillside motor- and foot-paths are cut, is ronds easily carved with knife or sharp stick with the result that, in the absence of a prohibition, 'much of the beauty of these roads and paths has been marred by slogans, devices, names and other efforts at self-ex-
Cleveland and St. Louis engaged in a
sfugging match, the Indians emerging with the Browns' scalp at the best eld of a twelve to ten
St. Louis hit score.
eighteen and Cleveland seventeen, but Knicker-pression carved by idle loiterers.
place of the Revoustic ideas, and boder cruslied out a honer for the
centre of the new
the new environment inspirod The the brothers Ko, Chen Si-v Pow Slu-yau and others. By some these men simultaneously.
coincidence along almost the same
ling to revive the spirit of the Tang and Sung Dynasties by applying more
Indians, and Solters, usually 50 the Browns a circuit blow-Reuter. dependable in a pinch, failed to give
OF MRS. N. H. OMAR
scientifle methods to their studies DEATH from Nature. Many of the younger artists of modern China became fel- Jowers of the new movement. Chen Si-yun has turned to
to active politics, but has not abandoned his art. In Hongkong Mr. Fow, who is the head of the Lal Ching Art
Art College. his students Into the new methods, and the new school is be-:
is in-
PASSES AFTER LONG ILLNESS
The death occurred after a long No. 365 coming very influential. The Club's liness at her residence at recent exhibition represents the work Hennessy Road at 2.25 this morning of one wing of the new movement. of Mrs. Neesa Mohammed Omar, the
Though all the six exhibitors studi-mother
well-known local
of
ext under one master, each has his Indian sporting family. own Individuality. Chiu Shu-ngong's achievement is outstanding, his in- The late Mrs. Omar, who, had been sects, flowers and birds give a vivid of indifferent health for a good many impression of the masterly handling constantly under medicat at
years, was 61 years of age. She had of technique. It is his smaller ex-
It
hibits that one is led to admire must, tention, and intely she suffered from is in his landscapes that one can a relapse and despite all that medical mest commend Yang Shau-shek. aid could do she passed away this Wong Slu-keung specialises in figures morning.
western, models in his studies from
and studies of everyday life, and be The late Mrs. Omar was pre- Is no doubt the most influenced by deceased by her husband some twenty years ago and leaves an aged mother, Nature, Ho Chat-yuen's work standse song, U. M. Omar, R. M. Omar, somewhat apart from the others in K. M. Omar, O. M. Omar and A. M. styic. He has strong individuality, Omar, besides two daughters and six and has no doubt reached the stage grand-children to mourn her loss and of breaking away from his master's to whom the deepest sympathy is ex- influence. The future doubtless holds tended in their snd bereavement. for him a great career. All the six exhibitors are to be congratulated on
The funeral will take place this their spirited effort to revive the an- evening at the Mohammedan Ceme cient vigour of Chinese Ari.
tery, passing the Monument at 3.20
PICTOR SINENSIS.
AMERICA ISOLATED
FROM WAR
(Continued from Page 1) American nation must answer "We choose peace""
p.m.
PORTUGAL BACKS NEUTRALITY PLAN
London, Aug. 14.
President Roosevelt concludert:— "We senk to dominate no other It is now confirmed in London that nation; we do not desire territorial the Portuguese Government has in- cxpansion; we oppose Imperialism; formed the French and British we desire reduction of artnuments; Governments of Portuguese adherence we offer every nation in the world the hand-clasp of a good neighbour. Let those wishing our friendship look us in the eye and take our hand" Reuter.
in principle to the proposed agreement
SAVAGE CLASHES TORTURE SPAIN
(Continned from Page 1.)
that heavy street fighting is in pro- gress-Router.
Porto Blanco Taken
Madrid, Aug. 15.
The Prime Minister has announced that Government forces have cap- tured Porto Ulance, an industrial centre of 15,000 inhabitants, 30 miles north of Cordoba, and that 200 Civil Guards, who joined the rebels, have been imprisoned,
The district of Cordoba, it is stated, has been cleared of rebels and the orders to occupy the town-Reuter- Government troops are only awaiting
No
Atrocities
Madrid, Aug. 14. The British Colony in Madrid has cabled to Mr. Anthony Eden, the Foreign Secretary, repudiating the stories circulated abroad with re- ference to atrocities in the capital.
The members of the British Colony remaining emphasise they have never been in the slightest danger and the Spanish authorities have done every- thing possible for their protection, of all foreign and the protection lives and property.
There is no truth in the Lisbon re- port that the Government has invit- ed a foreign power to act as mediary
between it and the rebels, it is stated, quell the revolt without negotiations
and the Government is determined to
with the insurgents-Reuter Bulletin Service.
NOTED ACTOR ILL
London, Aug. 14. for non-intervention in Spain. This Sir Henry Lytton, famous Gilbert notification, it is understood, was and Sullivan actor, is lying serious- accompanied by various observations ly ill in a London Nursing Home-- on the subject-British Wireless. British Wireless.
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Shirley Rosa Dilly Barrad
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JACK OAKIE & SALLY EILERS in Their latest comedy drama hit.
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A wireless operator in remote Labrador, hadn't soen a girl in two years... Out of the Arctic night drops a beautiful woman who gave him."Petticoat Fover!”.
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Robert MONTGOMERY
MYRNA LOYE
Petticoat Fever
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ALSO
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AT ALL PERFORMANCES
"THE GRUBEL TROUPE"
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"LAST DAYS OFPOMPEI”