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It troubles each sex. So I put it to you;
Is it William Le Quex? Or William Le Queux We give you the cue,
So no longer perplex,
It is William Le Queux,
Not William Le Quex.
THE CHINA MAIL.
BATURDAY, MARCH 17 1928
OFFICIAL NEWS.
GIST OF THE GAZETTE.
AT THE THEATRE:
IMBROSE APPLEJOHN'S
ADVENTURE."
"Fourteen men on a dead man's
chest
To ho and a bottle of run!".
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others who have done ditto ad because it would then have had not infinitum. One of their favourite the slightest chance of becoming a devices to impress the ignorant is classic. This practice of tampering to name authorities and spout with the story appears to be the second-hand quotations.. Their besetting sin of the American' minds are like an exhausted blot producer, for Sydney papers just In future the postage on news ting 'pad-full of useless impres-arrived tell similar tales,, one, of papers published in Hongkong sions and capable of receiving a which I cannot resist quoting and posted singly to Macao will be That has the author's warranty, new one without making a horrible Here it is: but since his name will not blur. They can 'read books, but
2 cents per 402 or any fraction A groan floated from the small,thereof. long survive his death cannot read the hearts or feel the round gentleman, -with slightly little purpose has been served pulse of the great mass of mankind damp whiskers and a luminous Volunteers is to be a second Lieut- Sergant James Ralston of the beyond settling current disputes. around them. They are in the nose groan of anguish, and a onant and has been posted to No. 5 This refrain, sung by a partly and Much more vital is the question world but not of it. Their wit, such muffled scream,
Platoon of the Scottish Company placid gentleman beaming through how did Tutankhamen pronounce as it is, is pedantic, affected,
It was his name? One writer seeking the egotistical. The palmy days of Somebody turned round and said Logan M.Cachieves similar promo- been one of the chief, impressionn a private screening, while Corporal Donald Clement horn-rimmed spectacles, must have answer has pictured a young girl, this class was In Alexandria “Sshh!”
tion and goes to No. 6 platoon of carried away by the sudience who three thousand years ago, speaking between the times of Alexander "Look," muttered the small the same Company... these low, soft syllables into the and Hypatia, and also in Constan- gentleman hurriedly, "what's the
aaw and enjoyed "Ambrose Apple- blue Egyptian night.. Three tinople after the downfall of Rome. name of this picture?"
Dr. George Duncan Ralph Black john's Adventure" which the Court- is now a member of the Medical neidge-Holloway Company staged thousand years ago they made' a¦ In, these two towns for many
There was an embarrassed Board. tall young Egyptian Pharoh smile centuries pedantry, scholarly quib- silence.
at the Theatre Royal lust night, Provisionally and pending the There with slow delight and turn to the bling, and conservatism wore the Come on," said the small receipt of His Majesty's lastruc "house" which goes to make it still WGS an unusually big speaker in a way which even A.D. qualifications for official posts or gentleman, shaking his whiskers tions, H. E. the Governor has been more clear that Hongkong's taste 1923 could understand." Just what positions of authority. Then, if nervously," what is it? Is it "The pleased to recognise Mr. Marius in the main runs to light comedy. did she say? Did she, he asks, over, the blue-stockings had a Sheik ?”
Johannes Quist as Consul General whisper-
unique chance and a glorious There was a soprano ensemble for the Netherlands. in Hongkong ture
"Ambrose Applejohn's Adven- opportunity. What did they do!
proved to be very light Henrique Basto comedy indeed but very entertain- After several centuries of amazing disputations, wranglings, and polemics they produced scarcely "It can't possibly be the anything worth remembering pantomime. For heaven's sake, Or Too-tank-A-men?.
elther in litérature, science, what is the name?" Or just a plain, affectionate philosophy, or the art of Govern- Somebody told him-It's the "Toot" for short?
ment, and effected a mere tran-Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam!" Nobody will ever know, forsitory ripple on the great ocean of Ahhh!!" nobody can ever tell how the an civilization. To a lesser extent cient Egyptians spoke. Thus will that vicious, foolish system gained an outraged Pharoh wreak his power in Europe after the Renais vengeance. Thus will he breed, sance. It almost makes one weep dissension among the vandals who to think of the hours that have been have rifled his tomb, among their wasted--they must aggregate to Ltd. cousins and their sisters and their centuries in the public schools
aunts. For already, one is shocked of England by pupils vainly en to learn, racehorses are being deavouring to construct Latin and named after him
Greek hexameters or sapphic and Horatian metres. The labour was not only alsolutely non-productive it gave the poor victims a loathing for learning in general. If only
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"TRUTH, JUSTICE, PUBLIC SERVICE"
CORNED BEEF AND
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HONGKONG CIGAR STORE,
Alexandra Buildings.
Toot-en-KAR-men?
Or Too TANK-a-men ?· Or TUT-en-kaymen ?
Or Toot-unk-AR-men?
Or Tut-ank-a-MEN
And motor-buses- And pet bulldogs
1
And motor-launches-- And suburban villas- And wretched babies,
these millions of lost hours had
been utilized in teaching the cager, young, plastic minds how to think scientifically and to read
of "No!"
"Well, It's not Cairo??" "No!"
Mr. Carlos
is. recognised as Honorary Consul dor Bolivia in Hongkonging withal. Almost the whole of under similar circumstances.
the work fell to Mr. Fred Fermain'
Mr. John Fleming C. A is in the part of Ambrose and he gave qualified to act as an auditor, a capital portrayal of the comfort- Tenders are invited for supply-ably circumstanced bachelor who, ing Revenue. Officers summor nearing middle age, determines to uniforms and building overseers' sell his restful retreat in the coun- quarters at the Elliot filter beds. try and go forth in search if adven- ture and "romanca." After some thrilling episodes with a Bolshevik apy and a brace of burglars Ambres falls asleep, poker in. hand, al dreams that he in Captain Ambrose Applejack, an ancestor who was a dauntless buccaneer. He wakes up with the feeling that he has bad enough of adventure and that a well ordered existence has its compensat tions after all.
LOCAL AND GENEREL
The small gentleman gave a gurgle of horror, and immediately swooned. It made such a dis- turbance that the attendants caught hold of him, and pushed him out of the theatre. And as he was being thrown down the vestibule the manager came out and inquired Old Alleynians are holding a "Who are you? What's your dinner in the Hongkong Hotel on name? Were you invited ?" Monday.
"Was I invited?" gasped the small gentleman feverishly, rub- bing one hand over his eyebrows. "My name is Omar Khayyam."
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The Hongkong Club.advertises that the thirty-seventh yearly gen- eral meeting of members will be held at 5.30 pm. on March 26.
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Mr, Permain, as has been said, "Nonsense," said the manager,
had most of the work ic. do and And, of course, everyone will have
"Omar Khayyam is in Los Angeles,
did it well. His chief supporters and he wears horn-glasses, and his own way of pronouncing the
does stunts with spaghetti. Take that Dr. Sun intends removing his ham, who was charming de Poppy The Chinese papers mention in the task were Miss Lente Gra- nare-Tutten-Carmen, Tooty-
headquarters to the Cement Works Faire, his pretty cousin, and Miss comin, or simply Toot. But don't the book of Nature, how much him round to the station, "
might humanity have gained 1 let's anticipate trouble. Time Fortunately neither James Watt died away in the distance.
The small gentleman's shricks on Honam. No reason has been Cherry Hardy who very cleverly enough until someone happens nor George Stephenson
given.
portrayed the role of Aana Valeska, along with 1 name like Мг.
a bogus Russian darieuse. The Tutenkhamen Bloggs, or Happy otherwise
hampered by classical educations;
POINT OF VIEW. ment, lest I An extraordinary meeting to dream scene which took place might still be Valley sees the Derby won by travelling by stage coach and
we
reopen the consider the report of the inves aboard the bold, buccaneer's "ship Tutenkhamen Dahlia. Until then sailing ship. It is a healthy great snobbery question, I print tigating committee has been called was particularly effective in the
sign that Latin and Greek, both the following typical Hongkong by the Hongkong Hide and matter of staging and costumes.
To-night the Company are to pre- Theatrical touring in useful and elegant acquisitions, story about last Saturday's cat and Leather Co., Ltd. for noon on the Far East has its are being gradually relegated to dog show:-"Did your dog win a March 24 at the company's office, sont "Bulldog Drummond."
"Not Stephens Building. discomforts. That we their proper places in the curricula Prize Mrs. Blinkblank?"
Toot, toot.
FROM
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BOTH
was
were
OUR
UNSPEAKABLES, GRRI
ONE FIFTY RETURNS
Without com-
In addition to his other duties, Greater than Captain D. Fettes, RAM.C., takes Newton's law, over from Monday next the duties more startling of Captain F. K. Tomlinson; than Ein RA..M.C, as Medical Officer in charge of women and children of stein's theory,
level.
Catholics are invited to attend
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WINGS. know. But surely of our schools and universities, quite, but he was a great success, here offer better facilities than one study of English are coming into
most our towns out while Science, Economics, and the The Governor spoke to him twice!"
HONGKONG TRADE: company recently found in the their own. The irresistible march Irish provinces, according to the of Science, the lessons so severely story now told in a volume of taught by the war, the higher
PIECE GOODS OPTIMISM, theatrical reminiscences, entitled general level of education and "From the Wings." Remarking intelligence, and the grand march this new law I have discovered the garrison below the May Road that dressing room accommodation of democracy have opened the And simple, too. Briefly stated,
The fortnightly trade report of was frequently somewhat primitive, eyes of thinking men and women, it's just this. The more interesting
the Hongkong General Chamber of the authoress writes: "We dressed who now perceive from what false the play and the more talented the
Commerce states:— behind a curtain at the back of the pedestals the classical Gods with company, the more will people the mission by an American Jesuit
Cotton Piece Goods and Fancy stage as a rule, and there was a the feet of clay thundered in the reach the theatre late, the more will Father in the Cathedral of the legend that on one occasion, when past. Truth will out. One result they clatter taking their seats. Immaculate Conception, beginning Cotton Goods. During the interval Mr. Benson remonstrated
on Wednesday evening, March 21 largo sales of Dyed and Fancy Goods in of this awakening is that, save in Equally simple the reason. The dignantly with the local manager a few far-flung outposts, which insult they offer players and audi-and ending on Holy Thursday have been effected for forward de- because both ladies and gentlemen might be termed the back-ence alike is thus greater. Some morning, March 29. Mission Mass livery. Daily clearances are some had been put to dress in one room, washes of civilization and progress, day I'll say something really strong will be at 7.30 am, sermon and what disappointing, but the exten...
aive purchases by Chinese Dealers the reply was Glory be! And a knowledge of Virgil and Homer, about them. Meanwhilex II Benediction at 6 pm. why not, sorr? Aren't they skill in composing Latin elegiacs,
According to the
indicate un optimistic feeling for the leap out. "Is that your aeroplane?" friendly
Au entertaining thelange of futuro. Grey and White Shirtings or dexterity in juggling with the
Manchuria Daily asked that stranger, "Yes," replied
Behold mecalculus will not alone of them-
mystery and romance in which are neglected at the moment. News, a Chinese beautiful Marion Davies is the star the disconsolate pilot. "Very well, THE HALL MARK. elate. A Cali- selves qualify a man to become the
Cotton Yarn.There have been OF THE DAY. named Yuan Kuo artist, "The Cinema Murder" is no clearances for Kwangtung and in then," said the motorish, extending
fornian un-Head of a Department."
chang, at Taping being shown at the Star Theatre, view of the fact that Yunnan has his hand. "I am Mr. Soandso, iversity professor has given it as
The local man who shao in Kuantien Prefecture, is Kowloon, finally today. The at- hardly taken anything, our market property manager of the Blank his firm belief, based upon close
went to "The perhaps the oldest human being Blank Film Company. Just now study, that a big nose means
INNOCENTS Second Mrs, Ton- alive, He is in his 162nd year, and traction for Sunday and Monday ruled extremely quiet. About 300 we are making a comedy and we success. The man or woman, he
still is hale and hearty. Granted will be "Black is White," a spark bules changed bands at ouster ABROAD. queray" thinking it need a wrecked aeroplano." Fur- contends, possessing the largest
ling comedy which features an annuity of 200 yen out of the comedy
prices. Dorothy Dalton. ther conversation followed and the nose will win the greatest success. should really meet the other local local taxes, Yuan bids fair to break
Quotations are: No. 10% film company agreed to rent the In support of his theory he points man who wanted a guidebook for life of modern times--169 years. couple of concerts at Government 10s. $194/214. No. 206. $177/204.
the record for the longest human!
$170/195. No. 128. $175/198.; No. wrecked plane, just as it stood, for to Lincoln, Napoleon and Caesar. Palestine and bought-you wont
Lady Stubbs is organising a $1,000. A few days later the film Maskee that he fails to explain believe it-Innocents Abroad." This was made by Henry Jenkins, House in aid of welfare work in Arrivals nil. Shipments 500 bales. Bonosono, Saturday, MARCH 17, 1923. the film company's cheque for that indicate success. Masker, also, was made and the youth received why a generous proboscis should
of Yorkshire, who was born in 1501 London-a cause which impressed Sales 300 bales. Unsold stock 9,200 INVESTMENTS. bought a share court registers of the chancery that when she was Home recently. One
One man in 1922 and died in 1670. It was proved by her as being a most deserving one bales. Bargains. 10,000 balas.. sum-$100 more than the aeroplane that the vulgar scoff. Truth will had cost.
Woollens. A little business has That experience one out, and I am elate,
of oil stock for he had appeared in evidence one You have often would have thought safe rating
$25 which to-day is worth $37,000. hundred and forty years before his concert is to take place on April been done in Blankets otherwise the Southwark has a rubber That's nothing. Had Methusalch death. The average human life is May 7. Mr. Eric Rice is arranging smiled at the ingen-unique, but seemingly it is not.
5 and another is announced for market is quiet. ious subterfuges Junk heaps are now being feverish-
NEAT. road. The story that a invested. 31 at 6 per cent com thirty-three years. One-fourth of
Raw Cottons. No business bas resident fell from an-pounded annually when he was 21 CABBAGE. Jiggs to gratify his car, one made by a certain C. F. long that he had to be shot down amounted to $977,157,900,000,000 fore they are sixteen. About one
cost $3 each. they are six years old; one-half be-
as follows:-Indian grades at craving for comed Britzke of Racine in 1899. This old to save him, from starving, is 000,000,000 when he died. And person in every hundred lives to
$88/43. Chinese staple at $41/18. model, it appears, was constructed London Opinion feels sure, ex- had I saved the money I have in- see sixty-five. But they are now downfall of rain the King's Regi rise in prices on the Continent, local Owing to yesterday's heavy. Metals. In sympathy with the with demountable rims and an exaggerated. ample of it is wanted to defend the
vested in cash sweeps I'd now be a going to change all that. A marment Boxing Tournament which quotations are firmer. Difficulty in All this recent wealthy man.
vellous new discovery is credited was to have been continued last obtaining deliveries, prevents seitere SILVER LINING. talk about things himself is something of a Jiggs in sand dollars awaits the finder. reminded one alert reader about
With those fiendish film to Dr. Henri Spahlinger, the world night, is to be resumed at 8-30, quoting firm and it will probably educational has this respect. This interesting fact Twenty thous! Without delay I Hazlitt's remark that anyone who
people nothing's sacred famous Swiss scientist and bacter-o'clock to-night, and will be con-be a considerable time before prices became known last month when must peel off my new wall-paper had passed through the regular
OUT these days, and our first fologist whose, serum and vaccine concluded on Monday. A special get to a normal level. Dealers are HYDING violent protests have long treatment for the cure of consumpten round contest between Privates reluctant to come up to the higher he took action against an American Someone-in America, anyway-gradations of a classical education
HYDE since dwindled to feeble tion represents the most succesfullyan and Griffin have been levels, and appear to be content railway company which mislaid someone might want those sweep and was not made a fool by it
complaint or mouraful effort yet made to rid mankind of arranged for to-night. Booking at with their heavy purchases of Nails sixty-four cases of corned beef he tickets
some day.
indifference. Let them this mortal discase. Injections of ringside only, might consider himself as having put "pep" into Dumas and "ginger ferments from the Spahlinger
and Bars made at the end of Febro- had purchased way back in 1918
With the death of the had a for the royal household, Suing as
very marrow escape. up" Dickens. Let them if they serum have been stated to have re. George Windsor, King of Great
WHAT'S Earl of Cottenham, a "Hazlitt gives his reasons for this must. But when they have resulted in a rejuvenation and pro- to learn that there is a likelihood of delivery of these parcela remains to Music-lovers will be pleased Whether they will obtain collateral descendant sweeping statement. Bilain and Ireland and the
scen.. Dominions beyond the seas," he
NAME of Samuel Pepys, whole, even though many of his or Oliver Twist" nearer to their that equal if they do not surpass the pianoforte recital at the Kowloon estimated at 460,000 saaks. Quota
the moulded "The Three Musketeers" longation of the life of the botty Professor Godowsky giving a
Flour Market Report Block: was awarded $669 damages. Let's
London has revived assertions regarding the ignorance stony heart's desire, insist. that wonders of the curative effects of Theatre on Wednesday night. As hope Mrs. Jiggs sees this and that the old controversy-how did the of the learned
famous diarist pronounce his too.
are only they do not foist these productions the serum injected in the consump no suitable hall is available in tions-American Patent, $3.85 per she duly relents.
truc, I scarcely name? Did he, for instance, call with him.
agree upon, the public as the great tive. Accredited scientists and Hongkong the venue has, perforce, sack; American Straight, $8:15 per He delivers an himself Peeps"} Or was he dictum in such
his authors' own stories. Hongkong medical men associated with Dr. had to be removed to Kowloon. If mack; American Cut-off, $3.20 per ESSAY American education staunch for Peppis," like one of authoritative, final tone that one is week, less glaring than most but adently hope that injections of the Godowsky will use his Concert Back Australian No. 1, $3.20 per dogmatic, was provided with an example.this Spahlinger in his researches con- the concert is arranged, M.sack: Shanghai Flour, $3.20 por board journal, a classic his name now living. Yet again, almost convinced straightway, but still bad enough to demand com- serum, ferments which stimulate Grand (by Knape.) FROGS. essay, lately immortal was his choice simple "Peps.", a second and more careful scrutiny ment. When you saw "Dr. Jekyll and revivify the body cells will in.
Bundries:-Window Glass Verd frogs, and was written by a young framed in the following lines by of
ized in type, is about These queries have been neatly reveals the one-sidedness of many and Mr. Hyde" advertised, here time prolong the human span of life. There are three heroes and three fow sales, and then only for small Norwegian. The essay runs:
arguments which had you thought was a story they need to a term of 150 years Personally heroines and consequently three lots. Market steady. “What a wonderful bird the frog
escaped notice during the first not almost could not-tamper i do not want to live 150, years, or love affairs in My Wild Irish arel When he stand he sit, almost.
Baltpetro-Kwangsi and Macin There are people, I'm told, some cursory glance when the flaws, in with, since it might have been writ- anything approaching that age, Rose," the remarkable Vitagraph demande have fairly strengthened
say, there are heaps, When he hop, he fly, almost,, He
the reasoning were hidden in the ten specially for the screen. flow of the rhetoric.. I happen soon learned your mistake. While Vinal recently expressed in the ment have secured for presentation
You sharing the feelings which Harold picture which the Coronet manage or market. ain't got. no sense, hardly. He ain't got no tail hardly, either,
despite the handicap-of-being forgiven for using his imagination
who, the producer might have been. Statesman when he sit he sit on what he ain't got.almost.
good classical scholars, are yet in depicting those monstrous" sane, rational broad-minded pleasures of Hyde which Stevenson
New rubber flotations are i course of preparation. O le con- individuals who take an in- himself forebore to paint, nothing
cerns a small estate on the Perak But those I think right, and I fol terest in mundane affairs, but on could excuse him for making Dr.
low their steps,
the other hand I have not met more Jekyll a romantic young man (with
- River, near Telok Anson, to be Ever mention the garrulous than a few who have not had the a love affair, too, 1) instead-of-a
issued under the auspices of gossip as Peps.........
THAT TOW ESCAPE the essayist men- large well-made, smooth-faced
Messrs Pow“ Whitehatalem Ruess. Yet last month a youth in Most authorities, however, accept tions. These latter are bookworms, man of fifty." That was a grave
Dr. A Life Savar. „
have a Sarawak, Borneo,proposition California wha had invested lis" Peeps" But the world will never or sometimes intellectual snobs, liberty, the more regrettable
It is.mfe to my that Chambyrlain' in hand. Mesara, Guthrie have one. savings in a thachine only to have know really Modern fiction whose heads are replete with because the picture was
Colio, and Diarchion Hously bas gave) For more propositions, apart. A körn it crash into a disused clay pit two readers are often puzzled over the knowledge of a certain kind 'but unquestionably a triumph of the
the lives of more people and rolloved the K. M. S. acquisition already weeks after his first ride, actually name Le Quex, but this problem destitute of wisdom. They load screen-brilliantly acted, wonder famous plano virtuoso, is to give clellised world for for oppedy sures of Agency of Mincing Lane House, Alexander Sklarevsky, the more suffering than any other ready done, while the Rubber Estate received more than the purchase has been solved in the following their memories with a cumbrous fully staged, and superbly filmed recitals in Hongkong shortly. He cram in the stomach, diarrhoea and also have some new rubber pro price. Climbing out of the pit, he rhyme I quoted several weeks mass of non-essential matter and Had the picture not been so good, was very popularly received herd, hii incatina palestor is by perties in process of incubation, saw a motór car arrive and a man lago im
parrot those who have parroted one-might not have cared, be- about two years ago.
Chenninta and Storekong WW,
adopted by poor oldly searched for an ancient motor upper window, and bounced so years of age his wealth would have the people of the earth die before the programmes and tickets will transpired and values ara practically
beef and cabbage. Perhaps you share Mrs. Jiggs' horror of this plebeian dish. Secretly you like it, yes, but still? Well, you'll be rights to the use of such wheels on surprised to learn that King George old makes of cars. Twenty thou
ON
WHERE
According to
How much would you give for an SMASHING'S aeroplane wrecked GOOD. beyond repair?
Little enough, I
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Who speak of the talkative
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Life I do not ask of you
Things I dare not name, Only do not give me this- Days that are the same.
If I can't watch the moon, —From my wooden bed;
If I can't hear the singing scam (I might as well be dead.
to their patrons all next week, The story is an adaptation from "The Shaughraun," the well-known melodrama by Dion Buccicault and it tells of life in Erin' in carly Victorian days....
in existence. It is known alt over the
be
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