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WILBUR PLAYERS.

“DO FOOLISH, WIVES PAY?"

A SPLENDID SHOW.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1927.

MODERN DRESS,

LADIES AT A HONG KONG DEBATE

THE OLD AND THE NEW.

For the first time since the

ALLEGED BRIBERY.

NOTES PROFERRED TO . INSPECTORT

CHINESE WOMAN CHARGED.

The Wilbur Players have' no

A Chinese woman, Chan Kam, reason to be ashamed of the recep- tion accorded them at their initial institution of debates at St. was charged at the Criminal Sea-. performance at the Star Theatre. Peter's Young Men's Club, lady sions this morning with offering a last night. The house

was not members of the audience can bride to Sub-Inspr. Chevaller, the occasion being the detention of the only a capital one for a first night: tributed to the debate last night accused on a charge of keeping an it was a most appreciative ong, and when the motion before the house enlicensed house at Yaumati applause and encoren were the or- was "that fashions in modern

Whilst being taken to the Police der of the evening. It was a night dress are better than those of station. It' was alleged against the of comedy, and everybody-players our grandparents."

woman that she proferred two

and audience entered most The two ladies who spoke stout crumpled notes to the Police officer thoroughly into the spirit of the ly upheld present day fashions and said something in Chinese, a plece. Indeed, at the close sae re- among women, holding that they Chinese constable being present at gular theatre-goer declared that Iti

for many a year.

The ense is proceeding.

WAS

was the finest representation of were more hygienic, more beauti. the time and hearing what comedy he had seen on a local stage ful to the eye, allowed more free-sniti.

Mr. H. S. Fitzroy prosecuted for dom and grace of movement and . "Do Foolish Wiyes Pay" is aenabled modern women to take the Crown. delightful American comedy hit, part in exercises from which they containing 60 laughs a minute and were debarred by the tyranny of the Wilbur Players provided a full the crinoline, the whalebone, and evening of side-splitting entertain the limitations imposed on them YUNNAN OUTRAGE. ment. "Do Foolish Wives Pay" is a by the ideas of the day in regard distinct farce comedy but unlike to modesty. It was suggested most plays of this class contains a that the excessive covering in well-founded plot and teaches an ex- clothing was typleal of a hypo- cellent moral for those married critical age. people who like to frequent the bright lights district.

the

-MRS. SLICHTER ARRIVES IN

HONG KONG.

The motion (for modern dress) HUSBAND AND CHILD MURDERED. was led by Mr. R. S. Jenyns and tion by the Rev. W. R. Cannell Mr. W. J. Howard and the opposi-

and Mr. E. R. Price.

Trailing Skirts.

The leading, comedy role was in the hands of N. Anthony Baker

With the arrival in the Colony the outstanding success of

of Mrs. M. Slichter, further de vhole performance-while Florence

tails are to hand of the terrible. Printy made the most of her oppor tunity to display her ability, in the The movers of the motion re- tragedy in Yunnan when Mr. port of the "trusting wife." Kuce ferred to the unhygienic trailing Slichter, a Canadian missionary, land Parker played a pleasing role skirt, picking up germs which and his little daughter, aged und Florence Underhill as the wife were later transferred to the three, were brutally murdered by that aimply must "step out" did drawing room. The modern bandits, as reported at the time her hit toward making the play dress was typical of the eman in the China Mail."

and her eipation of woman The other important roles were greater freedom of outlook.

undred per cent. entertainment.

nksioned to Verno Mersereau.

Mr. and Mrs. Slichter, the If little daughter, their son, aged Richard Wilbur, Earle Holging, the human form was displayed in six, and another missionary, Miss Bear Cartwright and Tove Linlan, greater degree than in the days Craig, were on their way from "Do Foolish Wives Pay" will be of our grandparents, was it not Anshun, in Kwelchow, across played only to-night and will ha sign of civilisation? Civilisu-Yunnan Province to Yunnan-fu where they intended to proceed followed to-morrow with "Cuppy tion should know. no shame; it Ricks,"

should be able to see and admire to Hanoi and Haiphong and em- There will he a matince on the human form in a proper and bark, for Chefoo, the journey Saturday at 5 n.m... when "The decent attitude of mind.

being undertaken with a view to Hicks.. That attitude, however, is Family Upstairs" will be produced.

On the ground of economy, the putting their young son to school modern dress, it was claimed, in the missionary school at scarcely less culpable than the

gave points to the old.. A modern Chefoo.

The missionaries were accom- other. The welfare of the Em-

flapper could make four or five pire is not a matter for such

dresses out of one of the clabor-panied by 'servants and an 'escort miserable Party bickering.

The-

ate creations of our grandparents. of soldiers, which escort was in-

For the opposition, it

creased by the local magistrate Labour Party is long in coming to

claimed that although in regard at Lo Ping, owing to the strength this view, and if we are to judge

to bulk of material there certain of the bandits in the locality who by its attitude towards events in

ly had been a greater economy, had been giving a great deal of

trouble. China, there is still no sign of it Mr. R. E. Lindsell and a jury women were spending far more rising above Party Politics. Even yesterday afternoon held an in-on dress than they did in the days

ent.

'bour

WOMAN'S DEATH.

EVIDENCE AT CORONER'S INQUEST.

was

1 Terrible Butchery.

quest into the circumstances at. of our grandparents. Fashiona It was shortly after leaving Lo Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, the lead-tending the death of a young were constantly changing and Ping that the military escort was er of His Majesty's Opposition, Chinese woman who died in the women tried to keep pace with attacked in the rear by a bandit who was thought to be a states Government Civil Hospital on them. Materials were expensive gang of superior strength and

April 22.

and the cost of tailoring was high. driven away. The little party of man first and politician after-

The deceased's husband was re- times before discarding it.

A woman wore a dress but few foreigners took shelter in a hollow whilst the fighting pro- wards, has signally failed in this presented by Mr. H. J. Arm-

The Victorian age, it was gressed, and it was here that they respect. Mr. MacDonald has not strong, while Mr. M. K. Lo watch-claimed, was an age of serious were found by the bandits when even succeeded in being consisted the proceedings on behalf of ness and its clothes were indica- the soldiers were driven off.

tive of that seriousness of an age

Mr. Slichter was stabbed to When Sir Miles Lampson the woman's father.

According to the husband, which had produced more noble death with bayonets from the was appointed British Minister to they had been married only as characters than any other and rim of the hollow, bandits sud- Peking, Mr. MacDonald hailed recently as December last, and done more than any other for denly appearing above him and the appointment with pleasure, had lived very amicably together. national reform. It was impos- carrying on their ghastly work He brought deceased from Canton sible in these days, as it was in in full view of the distracted wife declaring that the new Minister on March 20 and they lived at his the days of our grandparents, to who was lying on the other side Hong Kong, Wednesday, May 18, 1927, enjoyed the confidence of the La-father's house, No. 198, Queen's respect a mother or grandmother of the hollow. Mrs. Slichter was Party as well as the Road Central. Soon afterwards whose sole aim appeared to be then fired at and the bullet passed Government, and if there was one at her heart. On the morning of granddaughter in the shortness of daughter. she held in her arms.

the deceased began to feel pains to vie with her daughter or through the body of the baby man who could solve the Chinese April 22 she felt more pain than her skirts, her skill at the. The two ladies and the boy problera that man was Sir Miles usual, and a Chinese doctor was Charleston and her capacity for were spared after considerable When the Home Secretary, Lampson. Yet when the Nan-sent for.

In the meantime the keeping late hours.

dispute between the bandits, some describing the raid on Arcos king outrages took place, Mr. deceased's father had supplied

Bald But Bearded.

being in favour of killing them her with some pills. The witness House, informed the House of MacDonald, "while of course not was sent for at 1 p.m., and going days, it was claimed, was no pro who were in favour of holding the The brimless hat of modern outright and attempting to do it. They were dissuaded by others Commons that the missing State doubting the British officials on home found his wife was uncon-tection from the sun but women document which led to the search the spot, chose to accept Mr. scious. Two Chinese doctors were wore it and suffered in con- captives to ransom. being made had not been found, Eugene Chen's version rather present and they said she wna sequence because it was "the The latter course was adopted

suffering from poisoning. De fashion to do so." the statement, we are told, was than Sir Miles Lampson's! Why ceased was immediately removed medical opinion was against the the bandit base where, as a re- Modern and the captives were taken to greeted with Labour cheers. did Mr. MacDonald take this atti- to the hospital where she died at tight fitting hat in that it would sult of the pleading of Mrs.

15.30 p.m. Labour's jubilation was short- tude? Why does the Labour

The witness stated in examina-shingling would lead to

lead to baldness, and bobbing and Slichter, a coffin was brought to lived, however, for Sir William Party always jump to the conclu- tion that he did not know what growth of beards!

theher, and she was allowed to place The young in it the bodies of her husband Joynson-Hicks promptly added sion that its countrymen must the pills deceased's father gave to women and prospective young and little daughter. that the police had seized certain inevitably be in the wrong? The her were made of, neither could husbands should take warning. Fearing pursuit, however, the papers which might bear upon answer seems to be simply "Party time. She had never complained thick ankles and present day Mrs. Slichter had been able to he say how many she took at one High heels were responsible for bandits left their base before the matter, and examination of Politics." For Mr. Ramsay Mac-to him about his parents, or men- garters led to varicose veins ! superintend the interment of the these papers

was proceeding, Donald as Prime Minister took tioned that his mother was re- In spite of this dismal picture, bodies, the captives being taken whereupon it was the Conserva- action in a dispute with Mexico ceiving the attention of a certain the meeting decided by an over to the hills where the bandit young man. No one had objected whelming majority that present band was eventually overtaken by tives turn to cheer. Although it in a manner that was desto her being taken to the hos-day fashions are better than troops from Sze Chung. would have been more dignified to cribed at the time as recalling pital, or to a post mortem examin- those of our grandparents. have remained silent, there is the foreign policy of Palmerston. ation being held, some small excuse for the Conser- Where is that courage, where band's evidence Mr. Lindsell said At the conclusion of the hus-

vative cheers-after all it is only that vigour now? Absorbed in he remembered that there had human to score a point in return the morass of Party Politics! been some objection to the post

but there is no excuse at all Unless the Labour Party takes mortem as the doctor had tele. THREE YEARS FOR RETUF NED

phoned to him about it and he had for the Labour ebullition. Cheer- stock of its position, easy as it ordered the examination to be ing in the circumstances was not may think the overthrow of the held.

In sentencing to three years they would be exterminated. The the captives were handed over

merely the worst of manners: it "Conservative Government at the

Dr. Wong Tze-chuen said he guilty of returning from banish-If the demands were complied imprisonment a Chinese found promise was also held out that was rank disloyalty to the Em- next general election, it will Queen's Road Central and there ment, Mr. P. Jacks, at to-day's with, Chang would allow the re- pire. The Government, in effect, find that it has frittered found the deceased was at a late that he found from the records deserted and joined the bandita.

Criminal Sessions, commented turn to his army of men who had had said that an important State away its chances in ally stage of opium: poisoning. He that the accused had been deport The captives were then handed

ordered her removal to the hosed four times before, document had been stolen, and political intrigue.

pital those implicated had just manag- would do well, the next In reply to Mr. Lindsell, Dr. ed to escape detection. What was time it has the impulse to make Wong said the quantity of oplum there in that for cheering? The Party capital out of the country's to cause death differed with dif Labour Party if it can rejoice over betrayal, to refrain from cheering, opinion that the quantity found ferent people, but he was of the defeat of justice and the be for the echo of such ill-timed in deceased's stomach (about 5/2 "but what does your mother call that his promise regarding the trayal of the country for that is Jubilation may come back to it as grains) could cause, death in the him what ita cheering implies-may the death-knell of its political case of a woman like the deceased. Medvehaganoke soldier. deserters was only to

He added that a greater, quantity Ruth answered, earnestly.

"She don't call him nuthin' speed the release of the captives as well, declare itself at once the

must have been taken if 5% likes him,"

She and that it was his intention vassal of Moscow. Perhaps those.

Rosalie: "Have you chosen any grains were found in the stomach

when they were handed over to who cheered in the House of Com. of your bridesmaids yet

after death.

exterminate the bandits. mona did not look at the matter

May: Yes Fanny Lyon."

Deceased's father said she ap Rosalia: "Why, I thought you neared happy but had at times ness said his daughter had com been constipated during the past paled to him about her mother May: "Well, you see, the brides three years. Sha was never very in-law's behaviour with a certain maids aro to wear yellow, and you sick however. The pills he had young man can imagine how that will go with given her were made of herba and The inquiry was adjourned placing the boy in the school at. Fanny's complexion:

did not contain opium. The wit until this afternoon.

Ghafoo

hopes.

in this light, merely letting thom-hated her." selves go at the supposed discom- fiture of political opponent in the person of Sir William Joynsor

it

W3B summoned to No. 198,

PERSISTENT!

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DEPORTEE.

The Ladies Released.

After preliminary skirmishes, the officer in charge of the soldiers, named Chang, sent ⠀⠀ a message that he knew where the

near and far relations of Chau,

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the bandit chief, lived and unless

The teacher asked little Ruth what her father's name was... "Daddy," she answered... "Yes, dear," said the teacher

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over and the ladles and boy wère- sent to Sze Chung under escort,. the bulk of the troops remaining near the bandits. What sub. sequently happened, Mre. Slichter le not aware of, but she had been told by Chang before leaving

Mrs. Slichter, who is staying with friends in Hong Kong, in- tends resting here for a while and, then completing the journey? which her husband had intended.

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