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parts of the world, and it must be regarded as one of the most remarkable ever accomplished. Evidently the aviators now in- tend to reach Europé via the Per- sian Gulf and Asia Minor, and
if they continue their journey
ed upon the Aerial Age. telegram to hand states that Costes and Lebrix are expected in Paris to-day, and that they are to receive a "rousing welcome." It is a very wonderful, as it is only last Sunday that they were in Tokyo.]
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SATURDAY, APRIL 14,', 1928.
VARIETY ARTISTES.
PERFORM BEFORE THEIR
MAJESTIES.
FOR BENEVOLENT FUND.
TALENT COMING.
sail away
to their native land. The visit has in every respect been one of unalloyed pleasure,
MR. A. STROK'S RECENT ARRANGEMENTS. both to ourselves and, we venture to hope, to our Japanese friends.
GALLI-CURCI AND OTHERS. We have good reason to believa that our visitors have been very
Even before the curtain went the
Mr. A. Strok, the well-known favourably impressed by
up last night at the Coliseum one many indications of our pleasure felt (says the "Daily Telegraph" impresario, returned recently in having them with us to hand) that the performance or from a hurried trip abroad in and Admiral Kato, in his remarksganised on behalf of the Variety which he has succeeded in engag- Artistes' Benevolent Fund was an ing numerous artistes, musical dinner given
and others, whom the Far East assured success. his honour and in honour Outside a big crowd had ga-will, welcome heartily.
The coming of Jacques of his fellow-officers by the Hongthered, and so eager were those
assembled to obtain a Close Thibaud, the noted French violin- Kong General Chamber of Com-glimpse of their Majesties that ist, has already been announced, merce, was obviously deeply they completely broke bounds, and in addition we are to hear also Jascha gratified by the nature of the and had it not been for the efforts Cecilia Hansen, a famous Russian
of the police the result might woman violinist; welcome that had been extended have been a serious accident. But Heifetz and Fritz Kreisler who to him since his arrival in Hong all's well that ends well, and a will pay us a return visit,
Benno Moiseiwitsch, as was an- Kong. Such meetings cannot but few minutes later the Royal conduce to further friendliness, party, consisting of the King and nounced just prior to his depar Queen, together with the Princess ture last winter, will play here as it is only by actual contact that Royal, and followed by Lord again in due course.
and Lady Maud different nations can hope to un-Carnegie
Mr. Strok's most unique musi derstand one another and thus Carnegie, entered the box prepar- cal offering for next season is ed for them, which previously had Andreas Segovia, a guitarist who prove mutually helpful. For abgen adorned with bunches of has literally astonished London, long time we shall have happy re- pink carnations. Shortly before New York, and the Continental collections of having had so many this, however, they had been re- musical centres with his virtuos Japanese sailormen in our midst ceived by Sir Oswald Stoll, Mr. ity. Critics rate him among the Walter Payne, O.B.E., president foremost interpreters of Bach and To hear them obviously pleased with all they of the fund, Mr. William Agnew, other Masters.. saw around them; and pleased, manager of the Coliseum, and played on the guitar will indeed
be a novelty. above all we hope, to note that Mr. Harry Marlow, secretary. our welcome was sincere and founded upon a desire, for con- tinuous friendship on both sides.
On the vocal side, we are to hear the famous Mme. Galli- Curci. Equally interesting is the coming of the "English Singers," a British choral aggregation who have had a phenomenal vogue in the United States,
So far as could be judged there was not a single vacant seat in the big auditorium. And when, later in the evening, all the returns At the present moment came to hand it was found that the total amount ebtained was when in Japan Communism seems over £4,400 (a result surpassing
There will be dancers, too, to have penetrated much too wide-all former records).
The National Anthem having among them, L'Argentine, the ly but which we are glad to note
been played by the orchestra, all acknowledged superior of even has received a severe.check, it is assembled up-rising and joining the great Anna Pavlowa. Then, good to know that the Japanese in its singing, a start was prompt- Ruth Page, the noted American have so efficient a fleet who, ifly made with the first item in the dancer, with her three com- need arise, will be able to give a nicely varied and excellent pro- panions, is coming. good account of themselves Kemble, fitly described as "A Little Eccentric," bringing with against the forces of disorder.
him a bicycle, which, after some amusing tricks, he abandoned for a one-wheel sycle, the saddle be- ing raised to some ten feet above the ground.
"JAPAN'S
"REDS."
FUNDS.
ARRESTS CONTINUE,
in-
gramme.
On
dashed Larry
Mr. Strok is to be congratulat- ed on securing so many celebrities for our diversion. The interna tional character of his selection calls for special compliment. Hong Kong, which has had occa- sion to be grateful to him in the. past, will not be slow to record its sense of increased obligation.
CHINESE POSTS.
MR. PICARD-DESTELAN'S DUAL APPOINTMENTS.
NANKING AGREEMENTS.
.
Shanghai, Yesterday.
SIR R. RODD.
TO STAND FOR MARYLEBONE.
har-
Next came Starelli and Douglas, with the same speed as they have SOVIET BELIEVED SOURCE OF
krtown as the "Fiddle Fanatics," a so far shown they may easily
title fully justified by subsequent events. And, of course, there was finish as the performers of one of
a most hearty welcome for the the most wonderful flights ever
troupe of Victoria Dancing Girls, Tokyo, Yesterday. undertaken. It all goes to prove
The "Yomiuri" reports that fully attitred in pretty pink a bevy of delightful girls taste- how extraordinarily rapid has
vestigations have revealed that
frocks, and, individually or to- been aviation's advance during the
funds were supplied to the ex-
gether, extorting from the pleas- past few years and how very tremists from the Soviet Tradeed spectators a well-deserved much we now have netually enter-Commission in Shanghai and other meed of applause for their grace. Mr. H. Picard-Destelan, Co-Dirce- [A sources. The report, however, ful contribution. An enthusias-tor-General of Posts, arrived at cannot be confirmed and should be tic reception also awaited Mr. Nanking on April 6 and assumed treated with reserve.
A. C. Astor, a clever ventriloquist office as Co-Director-General of the The "Yomiuri's" proprietor, how-who brought with him his in-Nationalist Directorate-General of ever, is a former police official and separable companion, "Sentimen Fosts of Nanking, holding the two well in-tal Mac," a peculiarly sensitive offices concurrently, After signing consequently generally
mannequin apt at any crisis to all the agreements he returned to formed in police affairs.
Katayama's Despatches. burst into tears.
Peking this mornnig-Reuter. The other vernacular papers re-
Note: The Peking and the Nan- Community Singing. port, that
during domiciliary
There are few English ballad king Governments each have their searches, telegraphic despatches vocalists who possess a more own postal administrations now, Though another week has pass- from Katayama, the noted Japanese pleasing voice or a more finished but Mr. Picard-Destelan's dual ap
Communist at Moscow, were dis- style than Miss Lilian Burgiss,pointment should make for Fed yet Marshal Li Chai-sum still cavered, show that Katayama was and she was heard at her best in mony.] OLLBRDESSEN.-On April 8. lingers much nearer to the Yang- behind the intrigue. The reports two songs, "I wonder Why," and "The Dream Song." Also at her 1928, at Berkeley, California, tsze than to the Pearl River. We also cannot be confirmed.
Meantime arreats continue. invitation, the audience joined to Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Oller-hasten to state, however, that we dessen, a daughter.
About a dozen members of the her wholeheartedly in the last have not the slightest doubt but Labour League Council, which was verse of the "Bonnie Banks of that Marshal Li would much pre-recently dissolved, were seized last Loch Lomond," the Queen, in fer being in Canton at the present night while they were holding a particular, applauding loudly. As if the audience could have had moment than in Nanking, and secret conference: others were ar- for that wonderful "droll" Noni.
fested at Kyoto.
their way, he might have gone that as soon as he can make his way southwards he will readily
It is indicative that the country on entertaining them for a good Rodd will be proposed as the official do so. It is probable that had the does not consider that the recent hour or two. Among the most Conservate candidate in the by- playing of "Ah, che la Morte," Marylebone necessitated, by the Mottram, Chineze Maritime fortunes of the Nationalist Army revelations call for any alarm that engaging of his feats was the election in the London. borough of been more propitious we should by the Press, though censuring the ex-while his manipulation of the elevation of Sir Douglas Hogg to
tremists, is remarkably calm in its
keys of a piano was a feat alto- the Lord Chancellorship.-British
Wireless Service, now have witnessed Marshal Li
comments.
gether remarkable. His reward The police have frustrated 23 again fully occupied with the
Queen despatching a bouquet to Hong Kong, Saturday, April 14, 1928. many weighty tasks that he had second attempt to reform the came after the curtain fell, the entered upon before being com- Ronoto by breaking up a meeting.him as a souvenir of the occasion.
Meantime the authorities, who have Time does not permit of more 63 Wyndham-street, was non-suited pelled to present himself at Nan-been endeavouring to gauge the than a passing tribute to the ex SATURDAY CAUSERIE.
king. Evidently it was necessary exacting extent of Communist pene-tremely agile dancing of Mr. by the Puisne Judge (Mr. Justice The extraordinary perform that he should personally present tration in factories and the estab- Victor Andre in three different JR Wood) in the Summary Court ance of the French aviators, himself before his Kuomintangshment of "celis," are relieved to capacities -- a gentleman in even-yesterday when he sued Mr. Ng ent headway in Government faz-officer-or to Mr. Clarkson Rose's Ltd., 4 Queen's-road Central for $362.70 in respect of alleged Costes and Lebrix, in flying direct colleagues so as to convince them find that they bave made no apparing dress, a soldier, and a naval Sau-chi, c/o Messrs. Banker & Co. from Tokye to Hanoi, is not only that it was much more imperative tories, except the Naval Ardenal exceedingly funny delivery of a the most notable achievement of that he should continue to work at Maszura, where 8 or 9 hands couple of typical ballads, "Mr. shortage of 31 piculs of cassio, out the week but it is, we believe, one directly for the good of Kwan have been arrested in connection Everyman" and "Where are the of a shipment of 700 bales, shipped is it necessary to dilate upon the purchased by plaintiff from de- of the greatest events in the his-tung and indirectly for the with the Communist round up. Girls of the Old Brigade?" Nor from Hong Kong to Calcutta and
wonderful skill and elegance of fendant. tory of flying-particularly when Party's benefit with his head- consideration is taken of the fact quarters at Canton. It says much that the intrepid airmen almost for Marskal Li that at the pre- continued their sent juncture, when the leading immediately
RAKER-On April 6, in England, Barbara Mary Laura, beloved daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Baker, aged eleven years.
8, nt April MOTTRAN. On
Johm Shanghai, suddenly,
Customs, aged 51 years.
Reuter.
Calm Comments.
:
such
London, Yesterday. At a meeting to-night Sir Kennel
CASSIA DISPUTE.
Mr. P. 4. Krishna Motilal Patla,
Mr. J. M. Hall defended.
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