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good things in art and music, in| bocks and pictures. This little role Then is an open piece of propagandha not merely in the interests of The Phil., but in the interests of music generally. The Philharmonic has! honourable traditions. It seeks to maintain them; to band together those who have been blessed with the art of musical expression either in vuier or through the varied in-
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-LOUIS UNTERMETER,
enlla.
SHADOWS BEFORE.
Coming Events Advertised
In The Mail,
ENTERTAINMENTS.
AS YOU LIKE IT.
WEEK-END SHREDS AND PATCHIS.
SMARTNESS.
SATURDAY AUGUST 25 1938
Some of these beds folded once, and some folded twice. Once was enough.
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LUCKY WINNER.
PROGRAMME WORTH FIVE
DOLLARS.
(To be Continued)
Much larger hand- PERHAPS, kerchiefs for ladies According to Billy Sunday the fashion.
coming into If the holder of the Theatre pro Revivalist: The London fashion expert recently, forward it to the China Mail Offer "I see no reason," said a grammne mentioned below will
arc
briak of the grave is strewn with "why a girl should not wear a
A correspondent proffers "P" a formidable list-much
Coronet Theatre programme No. 1001 issued Saturday August 18 to Friday August 24"
the wooden heels of dancing girls' couple of them as blouses, and a coupon value $5 will be issued slippers, the gilded corks of cham-skirt, and be dressed, so to speak entitling the holder to obtain goods pagne bottles, and the butt ends of for a guinea." "Dressed?" Per- of an equivalent value at any of the expensive cigarettes." For Smarthaps "So to speak?" Much more Advertisers in the China Mait. ness an American would jeopardise likely. his immortal soul so a Chicago paper added:-"Oh, Death, where is thy sting; oh, Grave, where is. thy Victory".
too formidable for repro- duction which he has industriously Last night befel! compiled to demonstrate the title TWO
drollest hap-of the letter "P" to rank as the EPIGRAMS. pening August 25.-Coronet Theatre;
most important in the alphabet. Douglas Fairbanks in "The Mark
Wage came to dine. With (presumably) the dictionary, Of Zorro."
I had besought
before him, he explains that "this That his best friend and bitterest is not a paragraph of pyrotechnic
foe he'd bring. His dog and wife were what he the popularity of P as a primal let:"DOUG" AT HIS VERY BEST, puzzles, but a presumed proof of brought.
ter." Premiers Parliaments and
August 25 Star Theatre; 2.30 p.m. "Buffalo Bill." 5.45 and
struments that man has evolveil|9.15 p.ni, The Fighting Guide," thway the years. To collect secle in and “ Dewdrop Inn." one bagly, ta mould it to the design August 25.--World Theatre;
SPORTS.
of a fixed programmne of modern at 5.15 p.m., Bessie Barriscale in and ancient works, rund to present it"Life's Twist"; at 9.15 p. for the delectalion of the many, A "Atlantide." double purpose is thus achieved. Those who sing and those who play! August 25.-V.R.C. Night Świni- become orgised and united, ming fête, 9 pm. whilst a greater hody has the oppor-) August 31 to September 1- tunity afforded it of appraising not L.R.C. Annual Aquatic Sports at merely the efforts those who have:
A
the
Scotchnian spent a saxpence in
a dream;
And, horror-struck, so real did
it
Straight hanged himself upon the
seem,
nearest beam,
Patrons of the three Theatres, World are advised to retain their The Coronet, The Star and the
programmes.
+4
MARK OF ZORRO."-
popes, priests and priors, physici- name to conjure with that man is politicians, pastors and pagans, Certainly if any man ever had a
ans and patients, physiologists, Douglas Fairbanks. He charms pathologists and pharmacists, the ladies: captivates the men. He poets, and printers, policemen and pri- Doug, in the idiom of the day, is the pamphleteers, pressinen simply, entrances the children.
soners, parents and progeny, pal-goods. Dashing, daring, debonair, amists, phrenologists and psycholo- he never falls to gladden his ad- A LITERARY harrowing account gists, princes and the populace, mirers. Who does not remember CASUALTY. of а local peasants and other primary pro- his every exploit in 'The Three meticulous light ducers, prodigies and other pests, Musketeers,' his every Inis- September 1.-Promenade Con- of the pen, who described the all find a place in the list. But, chievous escapade as the irrepree- cert at Hongkong Volunteer Head-Peakites who had to crawl on their painstaking friend has overlooked not therefore look forward to see- predicament of a number of with all his patient industry, my sible d'Artagnan? And who does
V.R.C.
SOCIAL.
Į quarters 9.1S D.M.
AUCTIONS.
That was
Baron Laty
Repulse Bay Hotel. September 1Dinner Dansant stomachs to safety and shelter. the plutocratic profiteers.
How is it done? It reminds us of Sydney Smith who when advised August 27-Lammert Bros., at by a physician to "take a walk their Sales Rooms a quantity of "pon an empty stomach" quietly miscellaneous goods al II am.
asked "Whose?"
| spent much time and thought in their work, but of listening to such stuff as dreams are made of." The guin is beyond mere words toj assss and beyond prive. The Phil..at it needs to be again. stated does not) confine its membership to singers and players, but to the ordinary person. It is not creedal except so far as it believes in the best-in music; it is not racial and therefore not prejudicial. It is a place for the solist the executant and the listener. Its appeal is wide. It should not fall on deaf ears.
£100,000
August 29.-Lammert Bros., at No. 51 Godown, H. K. Kowloon Wharf Godown Company Ltd., 128 bales Indian tobacco leaf 10.45 am
On the Dominions of BITING. King George V, the sun
never sets.
But in England you cannot buy an ice or a chocolate in a theatre after 9.30.
August 29-Lammert Bros., at No. 18 Godown, H. K. Kowloon His Majesty's morning drum Wharf Godown Co. Ltd., Kow-beats round the world, but you are; loon, a quantity of miscellaneous beaten yourself if you ask for an ice goods at it a.m.
or a chocolate in a theatre after 9.30.
When the foot of a slave touches | the soil of Britain he is free. But he
Hall, 3 p.m.
MEETING
The news which Reuter cabled foul a day ago that two of Sir Joshua | Reynolds' paintings have brought
December 12-Meeting of Un- the recent price of £100,000 is secured Creditors of the Hong- especially interesting when one rekong Branch of the Banque éalls the famous opinion of that Industrielle de Chine, at the City singular character, General Blake ney, as recorder by Fanney Burney in her diary. On November 3, 1775, |ut a public ball, the General deliver- ed himself of a striking address ou Art and artists, with special refer. ence to Sir Joshua Reynolds: "He spoke of Sir Joshua Reynolds (sayeį Miss Burney) as if he had been upon level with a carpenter or farrier.
SERVICE August 31.--St. John's Cathedral Memorial Service at 5.30 p.m., in memory of the victims in the recent typhoon.
THE CHOIR CELESTIAL.
Did you ever, said Mrs. Thrale, If all of Asia's Thunder (lods see his Nativit; No, andam, And fulminating devils,
1923.
JOHN KYOTO,
LOUAL AND GENERAL.
The
but I know his pictures very well: Were fighting o'er a gang of aids- I knew him many years ago in Caronsing sombrons revels: 31orea he drew my picture there, and then he knew how to take a
Unequal would their strident sound Be to a Chinese song: derate price; but now, I vow, ma'am. tis scandalous-seauta loue Sung with sepulchral voices downed indeed! to pay a fellow here 70 By cymbal drum and gong! guineas for scratching out a head.“ Sir, cried Dr. Delap, you must rot run down Sir Joshua Reynolds, because he is Miss Burney's friend.” all it may be none of these things. 'Sir." answered he. 'I don't want to It is perimps the garb of a quiet run the man down: I like him well enough in his proper pince: he is us, time; suitable to a pipe, a book and theent as any man of that sort all that which will be paradise enow. ever know; but for all that, sir, his What's Claxton at? Those adjee prices are shameful. Why, be tival signals up again? Depression would not looking at the poor in the North Sea or German Ocean!! doctor with an eniged conteinpt). The houses on the Peak are to | he would not do your head under be renumbered, as from January 1, Moving rapidly. 120 miles away. 70 guineas-"
'Well,uid Mrs. 1924, in accordance with a schedule Well maskee. If it comes it enter. Thrile, he had one portrait at the published in the current issue of Meanwhile on with the progminie. last exhibition, that I think hardly the Government Gazette. "So here hath been dawning
A Holiday is a holiday and now and could be paid enough for; it was another blue day." It is not so then is relished by the wisest men admiring it. What stuff is this. Open-air concert to be given at dient to say that about this Who invented Saturday and Sun-ma'am cried the Genorul, how Volunteer Headquarters on Satur- Saterday in August has it has day? or the respites which they can two or three dabs of paint ever day next at 9.15. Band of the been about other Saturdays.
It signify Lubbock, he should he be worth such a sum as that? Sir, Klag's Regiment and Vocalists.
said Mr. Selwyn (always willing to
Hoyosuse, SATURDAY, AUG. 28, 1923.
SATURDAY TO MONDAY.
for silver is neither up nor down-
Sundays.
"What is this life if, full of care. We have no time to stand nod
stare,"
What is it indeed?
For a brief
needs the services of an efficient Philharmonic Society pianist (e) and players of string and wind instruments..
is not free to buy an ice or a choco- late in a theatre after 9.30.
"Be England what she will, With all her faults she is my country still."
But I cannot buy an ice or a choco- late in a theatre after 9.30.
England expects every man to do his de ty. But England expects no man to require an ice or a chocolate in a theatre after 9.30.
"For this is England's greatest
son,
He that gain a hundred fights, And never lost an English gun." But England's greatest son would not be able to-day to buy an ice or a chocolate in a theatre after 9.30.
"Tisa glorious charter, deny it who can.
a
The island home of an English- man."
But in that home the English- man cannot buy icc or
#1 chocolate in a theatre after 9.30.
Breathes there the man with soul' so dead
Who never to himself hath said This is my own, my native land?" But however often he says it to
cannot buy an ice or a chocolate himself or to the attendant, he
1 a theatre after 9.30.
in,
We must be free or die who spake the tongue
tumb of a Mr. Stuart: I had never done A reminder is given of the
Tenders are called in the
:
BOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
LA
MONEY.
ing him in his very latest triumph, The Mark of Zorro," which comes
ARMS EVIL.
OTHER PEOPLE'S mer, of 15, to the Coronet Theatre to-day? Superfluous the producer's assur- Hanover-
ances that "The Mark of Zorro” is square, W., a partner" in Coutts & Co., more exciting than "The Three bankers, author of numerous
Musketeers"; superfluous the pro- poems and other works, and one mises that this new picture offers of the founders of the Girls' romance, human interest, suspensa Friendly Society, left to Nurse and comedy; superfluous even this Mary Granger, "to whom I am paragraph Doug's name under a deep debt of gratitude," enough! the use of his town fat and effects there for life and a life annuity of £1,000; amounts necessary to bring the total fortune of each of his four daughters to £40,000; and the residue, after certain other bequests, to his son the present Lord Latymer......£1,038,972
The bill which the Government recently announced its intention of Mr. Aubyn Bernard Rochfort introducing with the object of Trevor-Battye, of Petersfield, making the law relating to the Hampshire, explorer and carrying and possession of arme ornithologist, author of several more strict is published in the works on travel and birds, current issue of the Government stated that as he had no sons he Gazette.
had thought of leaving his guns
trout rod one
· STIFFENING THE LAW.
GOVERNMENT'S NEW BILL.
Intituled "an Ordinance to and fishing rods to some male amend further the Arms and relative, but his daughters Ammunition Ordinance, 1900, "after all may have sons, and and the Flogging Ordinance. 1903, these will shoot and fish, I and to amend the Ams and hope." He therefore left these Ammunition Ordinance, 1923," its articles to his daughters saying," objects and reasons" are set forth "The salmon rod is a beauty as follows:- ... and the
1. The object of this bill is to in= never likely to be improved crease the penalties for carrying upon."
..£4.340. and possessing arms or ammunition Mr. James Hunter. of 177, without a licence. The prevalence White-chapel-road, E. (Tho and seriousness of these crimes Salvation Army Working Man's seem to afford ample justifica- Hostel), left a Victory Boad to tion for the increased penal Col. Goodall, superintendent of ties proposed. The proposals the Whitchurch Mental Hospital of the bill. are to make the (where the testator was a patient maximum term of imprisonment when it was a military hospital), ten years, to give power to impose- and all his other property to flogging with the cat or birch, and Sister Beatrice Maud Screech, to provide that all cases of these who was sister in charge of F5 two offences shall be committed Ward in that hospital, thanking for trial at the Sessions unless the her for the kind treatment Police request the magistrate to received in the place, where he deal with the case summarily.
spent the happiest years of his 2. The opportunity is taken to life."
....£59 declare cartridge clips to be
That Shakespeare spake." But when you listen in the theatre to the tongue that Shake- speare spake you are not free to
Dear Sir.-I respecti- ammunition for the purposes of the GENUINE, fully send you here- Arms Ordinances. This is done buy an ice or a chocolate after 9.30.
with my letter as I am by clause 2.
3. The words at the end of Be thou chaste as ice, as pure as accordingly to ask you to be so snow, thou shalt not escape ca- kind please let me have some section 15 (2) of Ordinance No. 2 of certificate but our work is very clause 3 of the bill provide for an 1900 which will be repealed by And be thou as chaste as ice, difficult in Local office. thou canst not buy one in the
I am exceedingly surprised at not additional fine of $10 in respect of theatre after 9 30.
having received any accommunica every arm which is in excess of or Mr. Peddy: "If that tion whatever from you by either below the quantity specified in the returns made to the Captain AS USUAL, young man's coming of the last per mail has due in your Superintendent of Police by any in the week, you had better give have your writing per Certificate This is a very rare offence, and it to see you every day port I am glad to tried you let me importer of or dealer in arms. him a hint to come after supper."
for 1 am going to another office to Miss Peddy: "I don't think it find some work to do but I don't seems unnecessary to provide this is necessary, Pa. That's what he like to do in Office again special penalty. The Ordinance is comes after."
for every persons has not to me. made simpler, by omitting this May I be bold to require you that I Here are two ori am very sorry to asking you to let
4. Clause 4 repeals section 28 of EPITAPHS, ginals secured from me have your certificate and I am ed by the Ordinances of 1914.and Ordinance No. 2 of 1900, as amend American sources.
I thought of you will kind enough This section makes the maximum 1919, and substitutes a new section.
Here lies Bill Spruce.
RL P.
He done his dam best, Angels couldn't do no more.
Is local office at last I have another
provision.
ance tried on indictment ten years.
to look at me what I have working for all offences under the Ordin boy to help me to do and than I am It provides that no charge under working with myself, and also the work price $20-only.
there is no such commodity until pan then we stand and stare. We what ero all you medern dabbler Co., Ltd. is leaving for Japan on a / Beneath this stone, a lump of clay, office for a few month and I did not / two magistrates introduced by the
One
Mr. Jones of Messrs. S. Moutrie
health trip.
|
Lies William Henry Daniels, Who on the very first of May
Took off his winter flannels.
section 4 shall be tried summarily Please excusa me attending my except at the request of the Police. home for a few day but I am in your It amits the provision for a court of bear to leave you for you are going not used in practice and it will not 1919 Ordinance. That provision is to Hongkong not long ago. I trust that you will be gave your writting be required in future as all serious cases of carrying and possessing Continuing our research. Certificate to me as soon as you can BEDS We find that Beds are of Iam very happy to wait on you if arms without a licence will be tried
two generál kinds, the you are willing to egage me. domestic and the wild. The answer is waited by, I am,
Yours obedient servant.
(Sd.) YONG ARTHUR KOW.
is dificult perhaps to imagineCanonised and called St. Lubbock draw him out), you know not how Government Gazette for a 4 years' the dour looking Carlyle giving tas most if not al: of our Bank much he is improved since you knew lease of railway lands at Tsim Sha Holidays. Commonsense probably him in Minorca; he is now the finest Tsui for a motor garage and for the utterance to such youthful lines, dictated the Saturdays and the painter, perhaps, in the world. construction of a market at Quarry fall of the joy of life. But!
Brokers invented the you talk so? You Mr. Selwyn, who
Pho, pho, sir, cried be, how can Bay. there they are and they prove that Wednesdays for themselves. Cou-have seen so many capital pictures Readers are reminded of the Carlyle could carol with the best of nonsense perhaps. Think of an abroad?' 'Come, come, sir,' anid fête to-night at the V.R.C., swim- us; could feel the joy of freedom, existence where the grind is con- the ever old Dr. Delap, you must ming pool, for which an attractive not go on undervaluing him, for, I programme has been arranged. particularly that freedom which tinual : unslaves. us for a time from the
tell you, he is a friend of Miss The first event is scheduled to start Don't be shocked at the word in your employ for a few month. Burney's. Sir, said the fieneral, at 9 p.n. A band will be in attend-dant which is the American tasks we have been at. Down goes
I tell you again I have no objection ance and dancing will follow the equivalent for "very" to the man; I have dined in his aquatic events. the pen, the ledgers are put away ; - buyers and sellers cease their bar
company two or three fitnes; a very decent man he is, fit to keep com gaining; brukers become quoteless,
pony with gentlemen; but, ma'am,
relax from the struggle of life to Nothing a set of not a Rubens put together to on ancient? Monday morning breaks with its
gain refreshment in our own way among them! I vow, ma'am, not often-times riotous Reuter reminder
for its continuance when Sunday n Rubens among them!' '' that our infinitesimal spot is u merc
shall have departed. We write ponder what the gallant fienen dot on the earth's crust, and we of home-it seems to get more difficult would say now. After all £100,000 perhaps not very inuch account after each week, and the pen is hard to
is a big price, even for America to all in the scheme of things. Type find and heavy to hold and there is pay. writers censo from clicking and the nothing to write about unless it be Today's Poem. "Dear Sire" are at rest. The busy
a Typhoon in which case a newe- (Country School-Room.) | Glutterbuck, who died on July 22, wild ones are not substantial fingers arrange the hair with deft
paper will suffice. Next week | "Turn to page ten in your Arith, commanded the light cruiser Caro-enough in the first place to with-
6. Clause II adds two new scc-- touches, flick a modicum of powder will do. We've got to get the 7.30
metics.
line ia China In 1889-93. He retir-stand a prolonged siege of snoring WHAT TO DO FOR YOUR tions to Ordinance No. 2 of 1900. in the right place, give the right Ferry; or mest Jin at the usual Rustle of yellow pages like a sunked as a captain in January, 1895, and you can't turn over in them
PILES.
The proposed new section 31 gives Among old leaves. The small boy and was advanced to rear-admiral without running nineteen yards of
the police power to stop people in set to the blouse-and its “cheerio" corner. Hope tu goodness it won't} tries to minke
retired, la 1900.
Imitation lace and perhaps strung- Every sufferer from Piles koows from the street and to search them for -until Monday. Plus fours flaunt!
rain. Stek of these typhoons. In His mind go through its jumbled
ling to death in baby linen. A experience that constipation aggravates arins.
the complaint. This pain and decom-
The power of search bet thoir bagginess perhaps-it depends!
bag of tricks.
Prince of Wales to pay a friendly of bed was very popular. It was bowels free and regular by the occasional am. is somewhat wider than that
It was a characteristic idea of the | few years ago the folding variety fort can be overcome by keeping the ween the hours of 9 p.m. and 6· upon the weather, or the stainless any case let us sing-
But how can he lay hands on eight visit to Mr. Thomas Hardy, says a treacherous which probably explause of Pinkettes, which gently ensure given in the day time. The pro Hinnuelsof... blameless Eachelor
When mountains fill the window more hearts--not only in "Wessex," once was. No one ever went to fair opportunity to dry up and host based on section 7 of Ordinance Home paper. It has won him some ins why it is not as popular as it daily regularity, thus giving the Filma posed-new-section 32, which it. breeks betokona bide for bowls, or
which is very proud of its great sleep in a folding bed without They dispe! constipation, bilious attacks, tennis, or sea. Mayhap its shorts
Nudges his drearin, when autumn man, but throughout the world-wide saying his prayers, whether he was sick headaches, clear the arin, porify the No. 13 of 1918, applies to arms a ue denating a tramp. Let us be
terary kingdom in which Mr, accustomed to them or not. You both "dralejowywhere, or post presumption which already exists quite clear, we mean, a walk. After
Hardy still reigns, Victorian though never know whether you would frescents the vial from Dr. Williams in the case of opium.
Medicire Co., #9 Klangse Road, Bhang- 7. The other amendments made- he may be.
wake up intact or in eternity. bal
by the bill are formal.
Of all the days thata in the week We dearly love but one day, And that's the day that comes A Batarday and Monday.
betwixt.
timea ніх
and a lako
and the ache
Of colour, noon and numbers moet
and mix?
Lieutenant-Commander C. M. Campbell, who is to join the "Haw about the beginning of September, kins," flagship of the China Station; was latterly temporarily attached to the Intelligence Division.
domestic ones are the kind that are slept in; the wild ones are the Rear Admiral William Robert kind that are crept under. The
An
on indictment.
5. Clauses 7 and 8 amend the Flogging Ordinance, 1903, so as to give power to impose flogging, With the cat or birch, for offences under section 4 of Ordinance No. 2 of 1900.
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