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FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1929.

H.M.I. CONCERT

A GILBERT AND SULLIVAN PROGRAMME

ENJOYABLE EVENING

AT KOWLOON

'WHAT HAPPENED TO

JONES"

PORTUGUESE PRODUCTION

The thanks of local music lovers The three act farce "What ́was swell earned by Mrs. Hargreaves- Happened to Jones," is being pro- Brown for organising the excellent duced by members of the Portu- musicale", which was held yester- guese community at the Star day evening at the Helena May Theatre on January 8 and 10.

The cast is as follows: Institute.

The programme, which was a de-Jones (Who travels for a lightful departure from the usual kind-that of alternating, voen and instrumental item was made up entirely of well-known vocal num- bers from several popular of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas. The result was a very fine musical evening enjoyed by a large audience.

of the most

Those who took part in the con- cert, including several performers of the Philharmonic Society, acquit ted themselves 30 well (in spite of the absence of scenery and costume And on a small stage), that it is impossible to single out any parti cular contributor for special men- tion. Every item pleased immense ly, and the audience were generous with their applause, which was well

carned..

Programme

The programme was as follows:- 1.--Sextette........... Patience.

Mrs.

Bellamy, Mrs. Womack. Mrs. Carnegie, Messrs. Anuls. Richards, and Hargreaves- Brown.

·

2.Three little maids" Mikado, Mrs. Bellamy, Mrs. Womack.

and Mrs. Carnegia.

3.-"Oh Rapture"..The Gondoliers,

Mr. and Mrs. Richards. 4.-"As some day it may happen"

Mikado. Mr. Brock.

5. Strange Adventure"

6-Song

Hymn-book House)

Leo D'Almada e Castro, jr. Ebenezer Goodly (A Professor

of Anatomy)

Frank H. Barnes. Antony Goodly, D. D. (Bishop

of Bailarat)

OP. dos Remedios, Richard Heatherley (Engaged

to Marjorie) Leo Guimaraes, Thomas Holder (A Policeman)

Al Alvares."

“PETER PAN ”

HOW TO IMPRESS THE EDITOR

THE CHINA MAIL,

JAMES BARRIE'S REFLECTIONS

Intimate reminiscences of the.

uhd "illustrious pair, Maredith Hardy," were related by Sir James Barrie at the annual dinner of the Society of Authors at the Hyde Park Hotel, London, recently Lord Gorell presided, and the guesta Included Archbishop David- son and Lady Davidson, Lord and Lady Cromer, Mrs. Thomas Hardy, and Sir Johnston Forbes-Robert son.

FORD'S RUBBER

WORKERS LEAVING THE PLANTATION

SERIOUS ALLEGATION

New York, Yesterday. It is reported from Para in Brazil

IN OTHER PLACES

CHRONICLES FROM JAPAN TO JAVA..

The next Singapore Assizes will he held on Tuesday, January 8,

Mr. J. Gordon Carrie has been

·

under the

that the workers, on the ground that appointed to be Deputy Registrar- the wages are insuficient, are leav- General (Singapore) ing Honry Ford'a rubber plantations Statisties Ordinance, through which he intended "to wrest the rubber monopoly from the Bri- Mr. George Sawyer, Superinten- tish."

dent, Posts and Telegraphs, Singa- The Chief of Police of Para State pore, has been appointed to act aa is investigating the nilegations of Controller, Posts and Telegraphs.. the newspaper "Estado do Para," Singapore. Mr. H. J. Harris bus

which says that the authorities 're-¦ been appointed to officiate inn Sir James also recalled his own cently despatched arms and muni-similar capacity In Penang. early struggles when he began bytions to preserve order.--Reuter, replying to an advertisement for a leader-writer-though he had never written a leader or read one.

"I wish I was famous," he said, mean just for this one night, so that I could do you credit. Even then I wouldn't take it on unless I had a return ticket.

"A friend of mine once said to me, "Everybody is famous for some-

NO LICENCE

CAR OWNERS BEFORE THE

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bir. T C. Welch, D.L.C., A.M.I.A.E., has arrived in Ipoh to take over the management of the Cycle and Carriage Company as the present manager, Mr. D. P. Flet-1 cher, is leaving to take up other employment in Penang."Times of Malaya,”

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There Was EL representative

William Bigbee (An Inmate of the Sanatorium).

J. E. Noronha, Henry Fuller (Superintendent

A number of European residents of the Sanatorium)

P. Nolasco da Silva thing, and are famous for liv-of Kowloon were, this morning,

ing opposite Bernard Shaw."? And summoned at the Kowloon Court gathering in response to the in- Mrs. Goodly (Ebenezer's Wife)

without a vitations to dinner at the Hall of Elfrida Osmund da Roza.ow Mr. Shaw has gone from across for driving their cars

the way, little pecking what he bus licence and for not having their the Miners' Association, Serom- Cissy (Ebenezer's Ward)

ban, recently Issued by Mr. and Sylvia dos Remedios. laken away of mine. Could I bring

cars licensed,

on the Lt. R. F. Wright, on pleading Mrs. Yong Sam-thong Marjorie (Ebenezer's Daughter)

Alda dos Remedios.

guilty, was fined $5 on each charge. Mr. R. H. Charles also pleaded Minerva (Ebenezer's Daughter)

Olivia Barretto.

guilty, and was similarly fined,

Stating that it was owing to a Alvina Starlight (Mrs. Goodly's

J. Heralda Leite. Sister)

change of ownership, Capt. Helma (Swedish Servant Girl)

Graham Shillington was fined $5 Hetty Noronha.

for not having a licence.

"MOCKERY "

STIRRING DRAMA OF

REVOLUTION'

CHANEY'S BEST

a

Yeomen of the Guard.

Lon Chaney, the man of Mrs. Womack, Mrs. Carnegie, thousand faces is to be seen at Mr. Amis, and Mr. Har his best in "Mockery," which be greaves-Brown.

Haddon Hall. Kan its run at the Queen's Theatre yesterday to well patronised Mrs. Womack. 7-indrigal ...... Haddon Hall houses, and will be shown until Saturday. Hong Kong cinema Mrs. Womuck. Mrs. Carnegie, Mr. Annis and Mr. Hargreaves-goers will remember him in quite a few pictures in the past, and Itrawn.

Mikado. many will agree, that besides that 8-Mikado's song

terrible drama, "The Phantom of

• Mr. Brock..

the Opera," his Intest, "Mockery," 9.-Trio

Mikado.

easily outstrips his former suc- Messrs. Annis, Richards and

Hargreaves-Brown.

10.-Duet

Tolanihe.

Mr. and Mrs. Richards.

cess0%.

an action against him?".

Sir James said that he realised that he would be famous in, the hereafter as the last mate presid- ent of the Society of Authors.

"Interest in your president al last springs up in the Society," he continued. "What manner of man is he? you ask, and indeed I have sometimes wondered myself. How did he begin? What was his first work?

"He began by replying to an advertisement for a leader writer on a Midland daily paper, and Result somehow they took him. transport, followed by a sinking: He remembered that he had not only never written a leader but had never read one.

P.C.'S EVIDENCE

occasion of the marriage of their eldest son, Mr. Yong Selin, ad- vocate and solicitor, Seremban, to Miss Koh Guat-oh, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Koh Tiong-kim, [of Kuala Lumpur.

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Major-General A. E. Wardrop, 6. O. C. North China Command, and Mrs. Wardrop, accompanied by Colonel Haskard, Chief of Staff, and-party" arrived at Hankow op Mr. E. W., Hamilton, the Kowloon December 19 en route for Chung- Magistracy to-day, expressed an- king, the "Central China Post" re- noyance at the inability of a Wel-ports. The visitors spent the night The party is purely haivei constable to give evidence at Hankow.

woman hawker pleasure bent and providing condi properly against a charged with hawking without ations are satisfactory it is under- licence.

stood that some shooting may be in- dulged in at Chungking.

"I will not hear cases from these men until they learn to give evidence properly," said His Worship.

General Maennghten, who had

The First Flook "First published book. It was and to remembers a shilling one, like yesterday the only person he ever saw reading it. She was a Sergt. A. Clarke sald that the the misfortune to break his leg in stranger to him and it was in a constable in question had passed his the first few hundred yards of the box outside Denny's bookshop in examination at the Police training paper-hunt and who is at present Holywell-street. He stood watch-school, and therefore should know ing her. She was a brunette, w-how to give evidence. lowy, but the chief thing about her was that she was reading his book. Several times she tried to go away from it, but she had to return.

Defendant was discharged:

in the Country Hospital, Shanghai Is progressing favourably, and it is hoped will soon be able to be moved to his home in Kinnear Road. Gen- eral Macnaghien would like to ex- press his thanks to the two un-

One sees Chaney in a peculiar rule as a lonely peasant living a to it. Her tapered fingers strayedanid, 'Now you've gone and done known men who so kindly drove quiet life by himself. in Russia, but again and again to her purse. The it," and I expect he said, "We won't him to the hospital after the ne 14. "Flowers that bloom in the who by na odd trick of fate, is sun was now ginking in the weat. have that man at Max Gate any cident, says the "N. C. Daily

Spring"

Mikado..

thrust into the very pitch of a At last she went off without buy-more."

News,"

12. "See how the Fates". Mikado, Mrs. Womack, Mrs. Carnegie, Megara. Annis, Richards and Hargreaves-Brawn,

MR. A. E. BROWN

FUNERAL AT HAPPY

VALLEY

*

Those present at the funeral in- cluded Mr. W. S. Bailey, Mr. C. F. Mentham, Mr. J. J. Cameron, Mr. H. Nish, Mr. J. H. Hunt, Mr. R. Hall, Mr. D. A. Goodwin, Mr. J.

"CIRCUS ROOKIES"

FAMOUS COMEDY TEAM TOGETHER AGAIN

born.

1 had ever seen on a man.

my little literary history is that the two whom as writers I have most admired became the two whom as The famous comedy team of men I have most loved." Fraser, Mr. P. W. Ramsay, Mr.Rookies" and "Baby Mine" re- Dog That Listened in

was

Ay-

They

and

of verset There were a hundred; a was conducted by Rabbi Joseph S. thousand, pencil marks on those two volumes that looked now like Baronsky in the ball room of the love messages from the young poet Olympic Theatre.

The bride was

were

Mrs. Bellamy. Mrs. Carnegie, revolutionary struggle betweening, but he felt that if the book "Whatever angel guards the Messra. Richards, Brock and peasantry and aristocracy. Then had been ever so little better he portals of Elysium, he must have

The Chinese Ratepayers' Hargreaves-Brown.

it is that the remarkable qualities would have got-her, and it is un-had to push Thomas Hardy in.

sociation are to lodge a protest of the "Chaney mannerisms" are doubtedly owing to her encourage Most of them there are too dashing

with the Shanghai Municipal brought to the fore in a story ment that that poor struggler is for that quiolest gure in literature, that shows clearly the

Council against the inadequate terrible here to-night."

with their Olympian revels and measures adopted by the police slavery of the peasants' contrasted Sir Jumes, relating his "few their boisterous talk about every-] to the pomp, ease and luxury of words of reminiscence about our thing-no, not about everything in dealing with the crowd at the the aristocrats.

illustrious pair, Meredith and not about style. He was not quite Stadium to witness the Loh Hwa

-S.R.C. football match. But Chaney's fine acting alone is Hardy," said: The one of them as others are." not reponsible for the success of has told me how he used to rush Sir James said that in the "noble further allege that the police, in the piece. This comes her from round Hyde Park three times on blography, of which half has just handling the crowd, drew a line the brilliant supervision and end, flying from his misery, and I appeared," there a passage of distinction between foreigners: The funeral of Mr. Alfred E. direction of B.. Christensen, who know a gale on which the other that might be more revealing than and Chinese with the result that Brown of Messrs. W. S. Bailey is claimed to be an authority of sat and wished he had never been anything else in the book-that in many of the latter were injured and Co., Ltd., whose death from light effects on the screen.

which they were told how from his and none of the former was hurt. Beside others, Barbara Bedford "When I small-pox. ww reported yesterday,

came to London I earliest years Hardy disliked being

A largely attended wedding took. took place at the Protestant Ceme- and Ricardo Cortez play opposite bought a silk hat to impress editors, touched by any one.

"I believe I can say that outside place in Tientsin when Miss Esther tery, Happy Valley, lust evening. such other and afford an absorbing and with the remainder of the

Curlez sovereign I took a ticket to Boxa relative no man alive, much as Zasnikoff, daughter of Mr. The Rev. W. Walion Rogers, min- love affair to the play. ister

Andrew's of SL.

a young Army officer Hill, where Meredith lived. I sat Hardy drew affection, ever put Mrs. B. D. Zasnikoff, became the Church, plays Kowloon, officiated at the graveside, who is destined to strange ad-on the grass mound opposite his hand on his shoulder."

bride of Mr. Boris 2. Nachtman, In his youth Hardy used to carry son of Mrs. Eve L. and the late Elaborate settings are cottage, and by and by I saw n In addition to many Europeans, ventures.

The ceremony including members of the staff of afforded, and the picture is well face at a window, the finest face in his pockets two dumpy volumes Mr. Nachtman. Mesars, W. S. Bailey and Co., Ltd., worth altending.

"I was to become well acquainted there was a large number of Chi

with both him and Hardy, and I nese employees of the firm present.

don't know which was the greater, but the most satisfactory thing in of one age to the young poet of a given away by Mr. and Mrs. W.

past age.

Beiner, Mr. Isaac N. Sapiro acted "What in human experience can as best man and the bridesmaids be more stainless? I think Hardy's were Misses Hanna Nachtman, first words in the Elysian Fields Geny Nachtman, Froma Stekol and

Sarah Topper. The ushers were 'Which is Shelley?.. J. C., Polsom, Mr. A. Chapman, Mr. turn to the screen at the Queen's

Perhaps those pencil marks on the Mr. Dave Habinsky, Mr. Jack T. Ferguson, Mr. J. Jack, Mr. A. A Theatre on Sunday next in an- Hardy at lunch in a club in Fic-books are the scrapings of a Oder, Mr. Alex Laizarovitch and Dand, Mr. W. Barrosman and Mr other excellent comedy "Circus endilly"where they afterwards skylark, trying to bring those two Mr. Leon Britanitsky.

Among the many wreaths sent in a big circus. Dane and Arthur talk for a breathless hour or two

Rookies," a hilarious tale of life adjourn to the smoking-room and together, and succeeding at last..

"I have only one complaint to A very interesting point has been mother and father, Mat, Issie, which the picture contains and, could scarcely look out at a window he gave will make you like him Mr. W. Bowling at Kiangwan on a were tokens from the bereaved are responsible for a riot of fun about style" and said that Hardy make of Hardy. He never read raised as to what constitutes a hole Wathering Heights. The reason in one at golf. Playing against Frank and wife, Norah and Edic. in their own inimitable manner, in the twilight without seeing Others were from the Chinese staff introduce a number of clever and something hitherto hidden from more than ever. He said he heard recent Sunday Mr. B. A. Prince of Bailey and Company (three original "gags." Dane appears mortal eye.

it was depressing Well, ladies, went out of bounds with his frat wreaths), the President, Committes in the role of an animal traîner

I guess he will find shot at the sixth hole (164 yards). "He has been called a pessimist, don't worry. and members of the Kowloon and Arthur is cast as a timid Surely pessimists are just people a copy thens. Our greatest woman." Teeing up again he sank his shot. Sir James, in closing, gavo "just So far as the competition was con- Cricket Club, Ynumati Slipway, the Press agent who rùns foul of the without any root to them. Was he European YMCA.. the Green former from the very start and that? Once

when I was at word of warm greeting to those Island Cement Company and the finds life pretty warm as a conse-Dorchester he showed me a letter with whom the future lies. Your cerned he had to mark his card & ¡two, but he has referred the matter C.M.S. and staff. There were also quence. An exciting and amus- from a firm which had presented is wrong, and though it is possibly ball with which he played, and they

motto, I suppose, is 'Whatever was,

to the manufacturera of the golf many wreaths

individualing race over the careening tops him with a broadcasting set. They sympathisers

of a speeding circus train when said they were delighted to hear wanting in perfection, I am sure a huge gorilla breaks loose and from him that it gave pleasure, but it is better than the one that I now have already decided that he is Describing the first paper hunt takes charge of the engine, that they were rather damped to see did for me. Whatever is, is entitled to a box of balls for his per-

right

formance. It is only fair to atate of the Season at Poking, the "North is one of the highlights of the pic-learn from another source that it China Standard" says: The hunt ture. "Circus Rookies" is quite was not he who listened, but his nasaus, if you think it is pleasant the customary honours on his re- "Be bold. May you scala Par-that Mr. Prince was prepared to do was won by Mr. McBain, who has on a par with any of the come dog. This was quite true." - only recently arrived in Peking Ulans previous efforts and pre- They went to a local rehearsal up there. Hail and farewell. I turn to the clubhouse, but nobody and who was riding for the first sents the famous fun-makers in of "Toes," and the dog behaved it true that some of you recently was bold enough to give a ruling on climbed a mountain to see the sun the subject. If it is ruled that this time in a paper hunt up here. another delightful series of mis- beautifully until the time came rise, and, when It rose, you didn't constitutes a hole in one, we have His victory however, comes as no haps. "Circus Rookies" will re- when he knew the wireless would think much of it, so you hissed? Mr. Prince's assurance that the surprise as he is very well known main the chief attraction at the he putting on "The Children's "Well, a magnificent gesture. At necessary observances wit! be in Shanghai where a fame as a Queen's Theatre until Tuesday-

with the old 'una' though we may any rate, be forbearing, won't you, forthcoming. Jockey is only equalled by that of

occasionally forget our missions and steal out to smell a rose.....

Morning Fost." (London).

H. Hyndman..

from

his performances across country. The reports which were circulat

He' and Benusun, whom followers ed to the effect that a Chinese

Sir James told how he first met

Hour." It was his favourite item. He howled for it so that even Tesa's champion had to desert her and hurry home with him.

"Hardy could easily be hurt by

Notice is given in the curront

of form will remember as Mr. Loos boy had been trampled to death not intended" pans. He had William's griffin entry in the last in the Stadium and that a ricahe things to do, and without meaning autumn race meeting, will always coolle had been killed instantaneous-to, they got in the way of his doing he hard to beat, and they shouldly in a motor accident in Rue them, but he never desired his give Mrs. Andrews and her fellow Lafayette, were grossly exaggerated. fame. If it could have been issue of the Gazette that all cargo members of the Tientsin Hunt a Nobody was killed at all, says the separated from his posay he would passenger boats must be registered great deal of trouble to prevent the | "N. C. Daily News" to hand.

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Interport Cup returning to Peking,

,

Mr. R. C. Wilson, of Queen's College, was recently elected presi dent of the Oxford Union,

at

door.

Two men were charged recently "When he published "Tess 1 Mr. N. D. Mudie, Livtrict Judge Southend with breaking warmed him that he was heading and First Magistrate, Penang, has into a local newspaper office during straight for glory—and he winced, retprned from leave and resumed the week-elid.

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