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usually well droased. "Late dining" se. An excuse does not in any way excuse. There is ang way to cor rect the evil of lato and disturbing theatregoera. It is for all concerned to rigidly adhere to the rule that no one shall be allowed to intrude during the course of the first act. | Many people who now seem to make no effort to do so would in a very abort while learn to be on time with s resultant comfort to numbers of sincere theatre-goers.

The Blues,

Quite a lot of people who do not..... dance got sufficient enjoyment out of watching other people dance. But the enjoyment is not what it used to ba. "I have never seen backa so terry and faces go sad" M.-Clemenceau is supposed to have said after being persuaded to witness some of the twentieth century measures which are styled dances. Perhaps something new is wanted. The latest we understand is "The Blues." There seems to be something wrong with the name' to say the least. The Blues may Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx be swift as an anapastic charas of

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BONGLONG WIDELSDAY, DOV. 7, 19:3. righting

MUSSOLINI'S LEAF.

nut

-WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7~~1728~

The star boarder bad THE PANORAMA OF LIFE. KOWLOON. intimated that un-

demanded of giving up the night to govern Haalf. As it happened,

leas he were given a however, the loan was raised in room in another part of the house Change is the common feature of dollars when the pound stood low be would have to leave,

society. The world is like the shift in New York, and the subsequent "The chap in the next room's ing scenes of a panorama; ten years risa has benefited Queensland. always trainin' and I can't stand convert the population of the schools into men and women, and make and it;"" be. said. Now that Government is "in "the *Training?"

Mramar fortunes; twenty years oquvert market again for something like Hash

infante into lovers, fatheta and £25,000,000, and the London

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repeated

Press positively smiles on it. The but it sounds worse than, that " Daily Express, for instance, points out that since 1921 Queens- land's credit bas--improved - s0 much that her 3 per cent, stock has risen from 593 at the time of

FROUDE.

SHADOWS BEFORE.

Coming Events Advertised

FREE $50 WOND

LAST

WEEK'S VOTING: CONTEST.

POPULAR HEADING.

Last week's voting contest - for

Mr. C. F. Tam, No. 40, Lower Lascar Row,

(top floor),

Hongkong.

to whom we are sending a choque for $50 along with our congratul- ations.

Competitors were, on the whole, agreed upon what forms of reading they thought would be popular and it is indeed an interesting feature that Newspapers were accorded. " first place as the result of the total poll...

"Yes, be mye it's for a concert, mothers, and decido men's fortunes; the most popular forms of reading.

thirty years turn fascinating matter was won by boouties into bearable old women, Next to Commercial and convert lovers into grond- NEWSPAPER Travellers, perhaps fathers; forty years change the face MEN. in advance of thens, of all society; and fifty years, will; the newspaper analog! find us in a world of which the boyentt bg 76 at the pressut may be regarded as the finest teller we know nothing, and to which we day, and is as good as that of the of true stories, based on experience, are unknown.

Next to the newspaper neighbouring State, New South extant. Wales. It adds that "io these man is any article or book he may circumstances it is possible that write. Here are samples from one any approaches now are likely to who modestly hides himself under a be met in a spirit differing materi-nom do plano.. Our man professes ally from that shown in 1921.'' to have worked for a man who All that the Daily Express (and waged a capaign for the installation other papers) forget to add is that of artistic electroliers on the main the Labour Government which street of his city. Afterward be the London financial boycott purchased a silver loving-cup paid! endeavoured to destroy in 1931 for the engraving, had it presented was, contrary to London expecta to himself by a group of "apprecia- tions, re-elected to power a few tive citizens nud. then pablished months ago by a largely increased the picture of the presentation in his majority.

own paper. On another paper he once posed for a corpse to illustrate Six out of every From an account of a murder scone. COMPLETE. a sports meeting in ten murder cases be has worked on hava resulted in his taking the Essex: *Selections were played by widow, the sister, the sister-in-law. Military Band, and members of the sweetheart or the inamorata out St. John Ambularios were to dinner. under the gaiss of offer: attendance.

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In The Mail.

ENTERTAINMENTS.

November 7-Coronet Theatre; Nazimova în "Salome."

November 7-Star Theatre; Catherine Calvert In "A Marriage of Convenience." Harold Lloyd in " Safety Last."

November 7-World Theatre;

November7.--The Grand Theatre; Elaine Hammerstein in

****The Accidental Honeymoon," 9.15 p.m. November 7-Theatre Royal; Forbes Russel! Comedy Co..

Swinburne, 119 thrilling as Pavalova's Bacchanale, and as long as the bill of a 'dontal surgeon, but the name suggests other ideas. You ask the fair one for a dunce at the next St. Andrew's ball, sacred ss it never is to the exhilarating reels of Scotland, and are told you may have the Blues or even all the Blues. You may not like the Blues, It is seldom that arrangements or the mere thought gives them to so complete. E.V.K., in the Daily termination of friendship. The November 8-Theatre Royal; you. You get them in any case it Neins. appears to us, with an admixture

of the patriotic which may be described na Imperial Blues, which reminds you of a commodity known as Dolly Dyes. However what's in

in

are

ing consolation. Umally he secured Paddy The Next Best Thing," a scoop which resulted in a sudden 9.15 p.m.

The correct solution as arrived at by all the votes sent in, l.e., tie choice of all the competitors, was as follows:-

1. NEWSPAPERS.

́ ́ 2. NOVELS,

3. MAGAZINES.

4 ADVENTURE."

5. SHORT STORIES.

6. CINEMA MAGAZINES.

7. TRAVEL.

8. LITERATURE.

9. SCIENCE.

10. LETTERS.

As far as could be seen, com- petitors had little difficulty in

choosing the ten items. Quité`a

writer states that at the first meet-Forbes Russell Comedy Co., big number shrewdly picked all ing of a Crime Suppression Com- "Windows," 9.15 p.m.

ittee which consisted entirely of November Theatre Royal:

Lady readers of

the newspaper publishers and editors, Forbes Russell Comedy Co, ALICE. China Mail who bear this they barred reporters "that discus "All of A Sudden Peggy," 9.15 p.m.

pleasant

November 10.-Theatre, Royal; name: nale sion may be more freo." He has

Bought and Paid For," 9.15 p.m. SPORT. November

10-12. Hongkong

a name? as Isaacstein said when readers who may know someone who met 200 women who, when he told Forbes Russeil Comedy Co, ho became a Christian. According possesses the right to "wear" the thom he was a reporter, "wished" to the Imperial Society of Dance title, may be interested to learn how they could write. All but eight of Teachers who have met in London, it should be pronounced. Here is them admitted they had never tried.

ten correctly while a still bigger number had cight or nine. Placing

them in such an order as to agree

as nearly as possible with the

correct solution" was where most

these aforesaid Blues have five a letter on the subject written to a He knows a newspaper woman who Jockey Club's next Gymkhana.

November [2-First Tourna- places, Newspapers easily had the

movements, and go to a slow fox-home weekly trot time. So now we all know. But why give a new name to an old dance? And does anyone hold with Cicero that no ono dances while solter, unless he happens to be mad. On with the Blues.

When a woman becomes PACT. prophetic she bares one When she becomes re- minisent the frightens ous.

Most of us who read CHOICE. generally have our own favourite passages to destroy its potency to assist in which we return again and again. the world's unsettled Here are two passages from widely We may imagine admiration of at least one reader, different sources which excite the equilibrium. what Europa may have been like and make him feel "somehow without the League, but some do different." The first is from the not appear to be able to do so. It Bible from the pathetic story of the might teach them a lesson if lessons Prodigal Son:- in European Councils can ever be taught, to have the League and all its machinery damned, smashed and

And

obliterated from actuality, then? Farewell the weak. Good- bye to reason. But only for a time. You may fool the people some of the time, but not all the people all the time, until you reuch a stage when the Mussolinis cessə from oustering and the Serbians scrooch

The Balkans has generally been -regarded as the cockpit of iurape,

and it simply warded cables are be considered in their econoinic word simplicity, signs are wanting that the old complaint still remains. Hot, excitable, drumatic, the essence of tragedy with soupcon of comedy may be said to wake up a Continental "affair. But to what extent can it go, and in what channels any the strum

Some of these tragedy of discord, anger, and strife hi na more. itself? Once the moparts of compoliticians remind us of the famous Duke of Plaza Tora who led his mon sense ste down the rush

regiment from behind because be found it less exciting,. Mussolini at the head of his black shirted ones with a gun is less alarming than

headlong. A pistol shot may be waid to have commenced the great European embroglio. Its reverbera tions may also be said still to hit the air. Pistol shots, with equally Mussolini breathing threats, satting fatul results roused Mussolini to bad examples and becoming the antald beights of bravado, sid to bad boy of Europe.

a display of modern arrogance and

bullying which, outside the vapour. Theatre Audiences.

"Lo. these many years do. I serve thee, neither trunagressed I at any time thy commandment:

and yet thou dever gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends. But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, than hast killed for him The fatted calf.

And be said unto him, "Bon," thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine. It was meet be glad for this thy brother was that we should make merry and

dead, and ja alive again; and was lost, and is found."

The other is from Shakespeare:-

And whether we shall meet again

I know not..

well take.

Therefore our everlasting fore For over and for ever, farewell,

... Cassius!

If we do meet again, why, we

shall smile; If not, why then this parting

well made.

was

they who certainly choice. As our

friend has it—they get you.

of the coupons went wrong, this applying specially to the forms of reading in the second half of the correct Hist.

Taking the votes for individual

married a perpetually drunken news- ment of the Hongkong Boxing biggest number for first position. Bir-You may like to know paper man to reform him. She took Assen. at the Theatre Royal, Magazines and Novels were gene

to drink and he left her. A local 9.12 p.m.

erally put in the first three and that "Alice" is pronounced scribe tells the story of the taunt November 15.-Palace Hotel here a good many competitors "Awlee," by Wiltshire country levelled at nowspapermen by an handicap billiards tournament com made the mistake of placing folk. It is so rhymed in the song atrocious politician who described mences.

Magazines second and Novels third. "Come. Lasses and Lads": them as "mental prostitutes."

Only a very small number of "You're out," says Dick. "Not

1," says Nick, The fiddler played it false; And so says Sue and so says

Hugh,

SOCIAL

of

From that moment he was never November 11-"Empress reported, quickly came to his senses Canada) at Band Repulse Bay and apologised. There is also the Hotel, from 4 to 7 p.m. story of the public man who com plained that his speeches were never accurately reported. The next day he was reported verbatim. He is now, sorry be complained.

To-day's Poems.

And eo saya nimble Alice, And so it is given in Randolph Caldecott's Picture Book, where nimble Alice is daintily figured on the opposite page, with her. partner, presumably Nick. Our

(Breakfast is Serped.) editors of Popular and National Song Books, having their own FRUIT and coffee and a bit of notions of. literary style and cor. rect rhyme, give The fiddler That's your breakfast? It's a thin,

pala ghost- played it wrong," answering to "And so says everyone.

Ghost of a breakfast for a winter's The pronunciation "else" may day; doubtless

be

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Loast

heard in other I want something I can pack away; dialectical districts. It appears to Grapefruit maybe,-and-some-oat-

meat, then be a sbortened form of Ellice or Ellis, from Alicia. In the form Hai with eggs from a full-sized

'hea. “Ellis" the name, was consocrated |

by the most gifted of the Bronte Fried potatoes such as mother

*makes, family. Yours, etc.,

Coffee, syrup and some buckwheat

_cakes;

:

· L. H. U.

They flint live in Wake up early in a nice warm bed. PROVERB. glass houses should Ought to jump out, but I drowa

instead:

not

throw stones.

OTHER MEETING. November 8-Hongkong Horti cultural Society, annual meeting, Stewart Bros. Office, 16.15 p.m.

LOOAL AND GENERAL.

The first public performance of "RUR is to take place on Saturday, December 8.

coupons had more than one of the last three items tallying with the solution and Letters, placed, tenth, presented the biggest stumbling block

No of all.

competitor correctly forecasted the order la which the winning list appeared.

POINTS TO NOTE.

In the interests of all the com- petitors, we must request that voters adhere strictly to the rules printed on the coupon. Anything At the Helena May Institute in the shape of alterations ten ding weaken the bona fides on Friday, November 9, at 5o.c. to

coupon must be entirely Mrs. Gompertz will entertain the of a

pro- children with Fairy Tales. Adut. avoided. For their own

tection and in fairness to every- The Captain's Cup Competi- body, we suggest that readers protect themselves by not changing tion, played at Fanling on Novem

their choice as une roader did, who ber 3, 4 and 5, 1923 was won by Mr. S. S. Church, 86-14-72 nett, who crossed out the numbers in the qualifies for the Captain's Cup and coupon and put others in to denote that the order in which he had written them out, was not the also wins the Pool,

order in which be intended them A practically new Cole to be in. This was only an isolated lard and Collard piano has been instance. Another was one in presented to the Military Hospital, which a competitor who sent in Bowen Road, by the C.R.A., on be three coupons wrote on the half of the Royal Artillery of the Command, alded by a cheque of Fifty Dollars from the 2nd Bn. The King's Regiment.

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second and third. same 25 first page.

Competitors are also requested to note that coupons 'must reach this office not later than Monday. A wreath will be laid on behalf Last week a number had to be wash and of the "British Legion at the disqualified on account of the

Well I

(English) If you have a head made Finally arise with a sleepy frown, (Spanish). of glass, do not throw stones at me. Run across the room, put the win-

dow downl When, on the union of the two Blood gets going as

dress; crowna London was inundated with....

at on Sun- Have I got an appetite? day Novembertherophorus coupons aut getting here till Scotchmen, Buckingham was a

Wednesday. chief instigator of a moverent guess. against them and parties used Bring on your chops or your T-bone

genks, nightly to go about breaking their windows. In retaliation a party of Bring on your coffee and your buck-

wheat cakes!

',

Scotchmen smashed the windows of the Duke mansion which stood in Continental breakfasts I have St. Martin's Fields and had so

never tried, many windows that it went by the

I like bulk in my old inside; name of the "Glass House." The Court favourite appealed to the When the winter winds 'round the

boose are whining King and the British Bolomon ra plied: "Steenie, Stocnie, those who I prefer a stomach with nice warm live in glass houses should be care- Bring on your vitties, let me start ful how they fling stones."

dining;

to eat,

jugs of the Eathermere press, ins

Jan. 1. Dan be prcticed been universally condemned. Pro

Golden Rule naght phets now await the head of the with happy results for all concerned Italian premier, or predict bis in at the theatre. It would seem as downfall. If wishes go for anything though the very, act of going to a he is worse than desa-be is a spent place of amusement, with the obvious intention of au evening s farca. In publishing the fact that enjoyment, would carry with it such Serbia has sent Bulgaria a forty- a radiation of good fellowship eight hour ultimatum demanding would include an attitude; of soli. ditous courtesy toward the people official apologies, the honouring or

surrounding those on similar The Serbian flag at Sofia by a detach errand. Yet, strange as it may ment of Bulgarian soldiers, a secm, such as far from the facts. 11minently in the recent Budget prove very light reading We know Bulgarian official enquiry, osem is in theatre audiences that we find debate, makes the following, which of one mistake over the phone plary punishment of the guilty and most unfortunate manifestation of is from, the City column of a famous which is true in mostanice and ir selfishnem That which causps still London Weakly, of some interest. fact. When Wallasey on the submission of the question of a greater astonishment is the observa In 1931, Mr. Theodore, the Meresy inaugurated its electric car foulounity to the Court of Inter tion that the better dressed an

Premier of Queensland, was in service the question arose as to what national Fristice all because a pistol audience, the more rade it is likely this country, endeavouring to raise colour the cars were to be painted.

ta be. An audience of poor people aloan. The land legislation enact-The foreman of the job telephoned 1798. with unfatal results was fired at s

ina third-class theatre in Europa ed by the Queensland Govern- to cortain official and asked the certain Colonel Imstitch, we aug will be in their seats before the play went, a Labour Government, not question as to what the colour, was center) that this commingly high, begins and will be gietly attentivo being to the liking of the big inancial interests here, they handed procedure was what is while the curtain 14-01

instituted what MENLbood mượn aa seking a leaf from fashionable theatre, however, those

meiwaald boycott and enILES YOUT Moralina's book, an mulate the bully

Bring on the mush and the grau That's 1st diner.

Alot has been said lated wheat; WISEMANS; Paderwiski's minuet

TELEPHONES. against the tele Make it snappy-let me take a flash they're playing.

phone, but we are At poached eggs resting on the oDÍN,

od beef fingh: 2nd diner. No. I won't have a inclined to think that Hongkong's is

inst as good, un, most places. Has What do I care if my waistband whisky: Lets have a shandy.

breaka, anyone ever thought of compiling The fact that the humorons misunderstandings Bring on the coffee and the buck, QUEENSLAND, Queensland figured which have laken place over the more or less pro- telephone? A volume of sucli would

who some lato, talki

For morts by 80.

fand who

wheat cakes!

BERTON BRALEY.

WEATHER CALENDAR.

are informed that if they will attend at the East side of the Cenotaph at 11.45 am. places will allotted them. Medals should be worn,

THE RUNNING.

Before many coupons had becu Taking advantage of the fact registered on the competition that they were not guarded, a charts it was evident that five forms gardiner and five of his clansmen of reading matter which ultimately who were held up at the point of a occupied the top half of the list pistol by four robbers at No. 114, were "hat favourites." Their lead Ma Lung Kung, Shamshuipo, at was never challenged but 4.30 p.m. yesterday, escaped eating face developed an intere through the back door and raised themselves. Newspapers tiled the alarm. The would-be robbers throughout. Novels chimo next a became panic-stricken and fed few votes abead of Magazines. without getting any booty.

·SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

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Further back were Adventure and: Short Stories which were separ- ated by the same margin as that, between, Nos. 2 and 3. In a different category but Mr. John Arnold and. Mr. Tfar ahead of No. 7 were Cinema Rowen were passengers on the Magazines, sixth Literature only outgoing President Pierce

CUPID'S DARTS,

missed seventh place by a small number and Science was à good. ninth Letters just scraped home into tenth position by two votes The following forthcoming

from Plays and the others were weddings are announced: Major strung out in fairly regular dis Arthur Dudiam Cruickshank, RA, tances further back in the following. to Miss Isabella Maud Garden, 20 Politics, Art, Religion, Memoirs when?? order, History, Poetry, Education, Murtleden House, Aberdeen, Scotland; Captain Evan Cameron and Biography. Essays were never Cross, of Government House, to

in the picture. Our weather remains unpara. Miss Muriel Yvonne Denison, en goned Mr. Hastings is not route from England by the Kahima Maru; Mr. Alva Jay mure brilliant ; the alms are evergreen. I a little regret,Hill, of Kowloon, to Miss Martba

How beaublar. Lavina Mills en route from America corred

the 7th of the Siberia Mara Mr John

NOVEMBER 7.

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Causeway Bay, yester

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