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"DON JUAN" AT QUEEN'S THEATRE.

JOHN BARRYMORE'S ROLE.

"Don Juan" comes to the Queen's

LOCAL LECTURE.

"THE HISTORICITY OF JESUS."

KIND OF MYSTERY PLAY.“

In a lecture to the members of

New Testament veraca. Phillo uses of the Logos-originally áŋ ab- stract word meaning 'speach or 'reason' and applied particularly in religion to the 'reason' or 'word' of God-terms which We are accus- tomed to think of in connection with Jesus. The Logos is the comforter, the pleader for sinners before God, the great high priest. Philo, be it

COLONY'S WATER.

CONSUMPTION UP; STORAGE DOWN,

DECEMBER 1 RETURNS.

at the. various reservoirs in the The amount of water in storage

between Argyle Street and Theatre to-day as the feature at-the local branch of the Rationalist noted, was accustomed to Interpreti Colony shows a decrease over that Prince Edward Road is tempor- traction until Saturday. The title Press Association, in Lane, Craw-the Old Testament symbolically, at the samo time last year, accord- role is by the foremost romantic ford's restaurant, yesterday even- and we may presume that he did ing to the official figures compiled artly closed to traffic.

Bowen Road between Stubbs actor of the time-John Barrying, Mr. R. D. Forrest took as his not forget that he was dealing in Road and Wanchai Gap is open to more, who has given one of his subject "The Historicity of Jesus."

on December 1. metaphors, but what is more pedestrian trame.

greatest, if not his supreme, per- He said:

natural than that his phrases, or 1,701.25 million gallons as com- The storage in Hong Kong was E. D. C. WOLFE, formance for the secon. The part I endeavoured in my last paper even the passage from "Wisdom" - Capt. Supt. of Police. affords him an opportunity to dia- to show as fully as the time at my should induce readers to imagine an Kowloon, 999.71 million gallons as pared with 1,868.61 inst year and in Hong Kong, 7th December, 1927. play that concisely elegant humour disposal would allow that none of actual person to

for which he and his family are so the commonly held views of the

whom they are compared with 489.50 last year. applied? justly famous..

Jesue .of

Gospels Was Brief reference must now be The story really encompasses two satisfactory.

now proceed made to the last of the influences of dramas the tragedy of Don Jose, lo give what

me which I spoke. Almost throughout the father, contained in the pro- to be the true explanation of the world, but more especially in logue, and the drama of Don Juan, the facts, which is, in brief, that western Asia, we find traces of the son, in the picture itself.

Don Juan instils into the young or less real than Thor or Dionysus, ists as that of Eating the God. In the only one level with overflow, all

the Gospel Jesus is a myth, no more custom known among anthropokig gallons a day to 19.1 gallons.

Tytam Intermediate reservoir ta Don Juan a distrust of women and that belief in his actual exist- ita fully developed form, for which the others being well below. which is omphasised when the son ence originated in a gradual mis- with Ita many sees his father killed by the woman understanding na the religion of refer you to Frazer's "Golden in all Hong Kong rider main dis-

variants I would] carried over from the Bough," the

custom consists in

tricts during November, 1926,

HONG KONG LAWN BOWLS ASSOCIATION.

OPEN SINGLES CHAMPIONSHIP, to be played on the. KOWLOON CRICKET CLUB

BOWLING GREEN,

on

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10th,

at 3 p.m.

R. LAPSLEY v. J. C. BROWN.

game,

C. J. TACCHI, Hon. Sec., H.K.L.B.A.: Hong Kong, 8th December, 1927.

MÁCAO ·RACES.

FIFTH EXTRA RACE MEETING. SUNDAY 11th DECEMBER, 1927. (Weather Permitting)

First Saddling Bell 12.45 p.m. First Race at 1.16 p.m. Public Enclosure 40 cents. Mombers' Enclosura $2.00,

STEAMERS TO MACAO. S.S. Sui An-9.30 a.m.

Sunday, 11th December. |S.S. Lungshan--8.30 a.m.

Sunday, 11th December. RETURN FROM MACÃO. S.S. Lungshan 5 p.m. S.S. Sui An 6.30 p.m..

By Order,

S. W. CHENG,

Secretary.

he has trusted.

тел.

"OH WHAT A NURSE."

Jenue was

tho I

appears to

•

In

time

The consumption in Hong Kong has increased from an average of 20.1 gallons per head per day laat Kowloon, it has increased from 15.5 year to 22.7 gallons this year. In

As compared with the full supply

In Kowloon, there was a full November both this year and last. supply In all districts during

water in

Roservoir on December 1, 1987:-

Level and Storage of

CITY AND HILL DISTRICT WATER WORKS LEVEL.

Pokfumm

1926

8' 0"B 21' 0"B

1927 9' 4′′B 1920"B

Level Level

9"B 11' 9"B

12.1"B 12' 1"B 13'11" 17 1"B

315.08 309.80

2.28

2.78 1,301.76 1,140.25

10.52

36,17

16.52 29.94

Total ..... 1,868.01 1,701.25 Consumption of water in the City and Hill District in millions and de cimals of gallons during the month of November."

1920 1027 Consumption

245.38 283,83

Consumption per head

per day

20.1 Fall Supply in all Rider Main Dla- trieta during November, 1926 and 1927 with the exception of the districts West of Eastern Street where an Intermit- 30th November, 1927. tent Supply was given from 18th to

Fabulously rich, comely, noble mystic and gnostic. East to the sacrificial cannibalism, the victim mannered, accomplished in the arts matter-of-fact peoples of the West being identified with 'the god, elad there was a full supply in all rider and graces of his day, Don Juan unaccustomed to think in terms of in royal raiment, worshipped, and this year with the exception of the main districts during November quite naturally gravitates toward myths.

finally slain and eaten by the wor- districts west of Eastern street To explain how this could come shippers, who thus become one with where an intermittent supply was Prizes will be presented after the Rome, where the Italian renaissance

is Tlourishing at the height of its about I shall firat call your attention the god whom the victim personat-given from November 18 to 30. glory, magnificence and prosperity, to an almost universal frality of ed. Politer manners

luxurious the human mind. All of us when reduced this to a merely symbolic Here, established in a palace he wins the hearts of Rome's we come to take stock of our fileas rite, in which the human victim was fairent.

find that we have been guilty of represented by an animal or even The ladies whom the great lover what we may call the hypostatiea- by some other foodstuff. Many, if loves in the picture are beautifully tion of abstracts, the taking for not most, religions have had their impersonated by ten leading ladies granted that because a name exists, sacramental meals.

Mary Astor, Estelle Taylor, therefore a thing exists correspond- Helene Costello, Myrna Loy, Jana ing to the name. Hence we are

Genesis of Christianity. Helena asked such empty questions as: We are now in a position to see Winton, June Marlowe, D'Algy, Helen Lee Worthing, Hedda What is life? To this, of course, the genesis of Christianity. in more Tytum Hopper and Phyllis Haver. Mon- the only answer is that, gram- detail. Among the local varieties Tytam Byewash tagu Love and Warner Oland are matically, life is a verbal noun, and of Judaism which survived the at- Tytam Intermediate. the outstanding figures among the that logically the word is applied to tempts of the official priest hood to Wong Nei Chung

Tytanı Tuk the abstract quality which va re-suppress it was one in which pecu-¦ Fokfulum However, "Don Juan" is more cognise as common to all the things liar reverence was paid to Joshun, (Note: B. denotes "Below Overflow"; than a love story-it is a tale of classed together as living. A little ie., Jesus. Influences by gnostic A denotes "Above Overflow."]

of exciting adventure, full

Storage in millions and décimals inci-reflection will suggest many other idens, the worshippers of Joshua dents, not the least being two thrill- examples of this fallacy. What it came

of gallons. to identify their secondary Tytam ing combats, one of which is strong-can do in the domain of religion ia god with the Logos or Divine Rea- Tytam Byewash ly reminiscent of Douglas Fair-scen by the example of the son, and under more orthodox Tytam Tule...... banks. The picture starts prompt-Falnahas or Black Jews of north-Jewish influence, with the Messiah, Wong Net Chung ly at the times advertised.

east Africa, among whom the whose coming was regarded, how Sabbath is now worshipped as ajever, in gnostic manner, MS 1 goddess- terrible warning to all' cosmic event, outside space and true sabbatarians.

time. These pre-Christian wor Particular Conditions.

shippers of Jesus were accustomed Syd Chaplin, who ranks to-day na

to meet for a sacramental ment Having said so much, I shall now!

whereby they became members of the screen's greatest female imper-turn to the particular conditions the god whom they ate in symbol. Estimated population 400.760 417.080 sonator, will be seen at the Star among which Christianity took its The final stage was reached when ROYAL Theatre in "Oh! What a Nurse," rise.

the big comedy hit which is being

The well-known difference of the what was to its earliest adherents. screened there from to-day to Satur-Pharisees and Sadducees, or aan allegorical statement of their day. The picture is one of the diligent reading of the Old Testa- theesophy spread among peoples ce- funniest the famous comedian has ment, should put us on our guard definiteness of classical mythology, made and it is sure to draw crowd against the too common idea that and to the clearcut. categories of cd houses.

Judaism was at any ancient time a "Oh! What a-Nurse" presents homogeneova religion. Rather we

Greek philosophy. These latter de- Syd Chaplin as a young newspaper see an official cult centred in the manded details of the life of him reporter who is compelled to act as Temple of Jerusalem

whom they worshipped, and in auch

1' 4"B jealously

8' 7"B substitute for the young lady who guarding its privileges and strug demand never exceeds the supply.

cases leaving deliberate asido, the

Level 0' 5'8 runs the

advice to the lovelorn gling to repress or absorb into it- column. In this role he is forced self local or popular religious pracnesses in this paper, due in part to

I am conscious of many weak Reception Reservoir.

Storage in millions and decimalu to adapt female disguise, first as a tices. Now, there is evidence to the urgency of time. I have been

of gallons... widow and then as a nurse. Many show that among these local rites

1920 1927 exciting adventures follow with a was the worship of Joshua, whose much for which I should have liked Shek Lei Pui Reser-

compelled to state dogmatically Kowloon Reservoir.... 338,70 269,00 laughable climax.

name is the Hebrew equivalent of

voir

100.80 99.10 Jesus. To this day he is spoken of and to leave unqualified much that to have given chapter and verse,

Total. 489.50 399.71 In the Jewish New Year ritual in

requires qualification or illustra- Consumption of water in Kowloon terms that befit an angel rather tion. In particular should have in millions and decimals of gallone dur- than a mere mortal, and he appears liked to have spoken of Robertson's ing the month of November. Returning to the World Theatre to be identical with the angel of special contribution to the problem, Consumption...

the feature attraction Exodus ch. xxiii. This reduction his finding of the to-day as

core of the until Saturday, Harold Lloyd's of gods who have been worsted in Gospels in a kind of mystery play Consumption per head great comedy, "For Heaven's Sake" the struggle for existence to the in which the early Christians show- Le sure to receive a cordial welcome, rank of angels and finally to men ed forth the death of their god. aa the picture. is one of the most provided with a local habitation and

In conclusion I must add that it popular screened in the Colony,

a name fa common in developing would only mislead if I left you In "For Heaven's Sake" Harold monotheismis.

with the impression that the theory The second great influence in the here outlined is held THE NINTH ORDINARY YEAR- Lloyd is a bored young millionaire

even by a himself swept formation of the new LY MEETING OF SHARE. who suddenly finds

creed was majority of non-Christian scholars. HOLDERS will be held at the off his feet by a series of astonish that of gnosticism. Arising ap-On the other hand, I would say Head Office of the Company, St. ing events in the tougher regionsparently outside the Jewish fold, in that the number of its adherents George's Building, Chater Road, of New York. The picture is de an interaction of Zoroastrian ad among scholars is both considerable Victoria, Hong Kong, on THURS-lightfully funny and it has at least Babylonian astrology, this early and increasing. It is maintained DAY, the 22nd day of December, one big thrill.

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theosophy came even before the by British, American, German, Christian era to borrow certain Danish and French writers, and' Jewish ideas, and, as we see from while revolutionary changes in the example of Philo, one of the thought on such matters are not to first to use the word Logos in a be looked for, I believe it will gain theological sense, and of the original ground, if slowly, yet steadily. The TRANSFER BOOKS of the

The pathetic spectacle of blind pre-Christian part of the "Teaching Company will be closed from beggars will be banished from of the Twelve Apostles," gnosticism SATURDAY, the 10th December, 1927, until THURSDAY, the 22nd Croydon if those so afflicted liv- was not, without its influence on December, 1923, both days in- ing in the borough accept the Judaism in its turn. The gnostic council's offer of a pension, provi- systems are none of them complete- Shareholders intending to send ded that they do not beg any ly known to us, but of the gnostic method we know sufficient to say in for registration Transfers of more.. Partly Paid "New" Shares are par

that everything was spoken in ticularly requested to note that

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CHRISTMAS EVE

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"Come unto me all ye that be desirous of me and fill yourselves with my fruits. For the remem- brance of me is sweeter than honey, and mine inheritance than the honeycomb. They that cat me shall have the more hunger, and they that drink me shall thirst the more."

The Logos. In this will be recognised a curious anticipation, of well-known

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KOWLOON WATER WORKS

LEVEL.

Kowloon Reservoir. Shek La Pui Re-

servoir

22.7

1926 1927

70.52 03.41 Estimated population 157.720 162.769

per day....

15.5

10.1 Full Supply in all districts during

1920 and 1927. The

Novemberment Analyst's reports

show that the quality of the water is satisfactory.

Total rainfall to November 30, 1926, 100.33; November 30, 1027, 100.50,

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