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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1929.

“ON APPROVAL”

and it certainly should be done on The name of Dr. Wong Yan- Sunday mornings, looking to the kwong, M.B., B.S. (Hong Kong) large number of attractions on of No. 816, Nathan-road, Kow both aides of the harbour on loon, has been added to the local Saturday eveninga. If the Yau-[register of medical practitioners. mati Ferry Company can run

THIRD CLEVER PERFORMANCE

THE GOVERNOR PRESENT

even-

ferries up to 2.40 on, Sunday Mrs. Fernandez, of No. 7, mornings, what is to hinder the Nanking-road, Kowloon, reported Star Ferry Company and the to the police yesterday that her Tram Companies doing likewise? son named Rafael Fernandez (14) His Excellency the Governor Surely the Colony has long since a native of Manila, has been miss-and distinguished company

last 'present got past the "curfew" age when ing since 8 a.m., on Wednesday. were "elders hours" were the rule and,

ing at the Theatre Royal when all good little boys and girls hadThe name of "Adam's Apple" the amall but extremely clever to be in bed by a certain hour! was alleged to have been given cast of the A.D.C., gave another The travelling public, of course, by a Portuguese youth who hired excellent performance of Lons- has got itself to blame to a cer-a bicycle from the Yee Fat dale's "On Approval." If one had tain extent. It has not sufficient Bicycle shop, No. 25, Canton any doubt of the capabilities of "kick" to protest against hotela road, at 10.55 a.m., on Thursday so small a cast sustaining one's and restaurants being obliged to and failed to return the machine, interest-it was removed by the close down on the stroke of inld-which is valued at $80.

very excellent manner in which night and it has still less "kick"

each member of the company. to raise its volce against such In order that a complete list portrayed their respective parts, early hours being forced on it by may be obtained for record pur-s feature of the performance be the various public "utility" com- puses, will residents of Hong ing the very clear enunciation of panies.

Kone (other than members of all four members, none of the H.M.'s Forces, who have had witty dialogue being lost in any Many residents must any decoration conferred upon part of the Theatre. Murder return from a trip to them by H.M. the King, inform The clever quartette were re- Invited? Canton by the steam-the Chief Clerk, Colonial Secre-called several times at the fall of

er getting in here in tariat, by March 9, 1929.

the curtain; and the production the early afternoon. The writer

is a tribute to the versatility of took the trip recently, arriving The Banvard Musical Comedy Hong Kong's A.D.C. here on a Saturday afternoon Company will give two special The general stage effects are about two o'clock. Scarcely had matinees at the Star Theatre excellent, and Hong Kong is be- the steamer come alongside the over the week-end. On Saturdaying fortunate in having an oppor- wharf than pandemonium broke "Tip Toes" will be given, and unity of seeing a modern play loose amongst the hundreds of "Folies Bergere" will hold the bill worthilly presented. coolies with baskets who scram- on Sunday, The afternoon per- The dressing and staging of bled pell-mell into the holds for formances will commence prompt-the production are two of its most fish. Donnybrook Fair was not in ly at 5 p.m. and seats may now striking features. The frocks it by a long chalk. There was be booked in advance at the were specially designed by one mad scramble to get on board [popular prices of $3, $2 and $1. Madme Rolande Sarrault, the first, as if the coolies feared that

well-known Parisian couturiere of

the steamer might suddenly get A combined Royal Naval and Asiatic Building, under the per- up anchor and steam out of har-Army exercise will be held on sonal supervision of the indefa- bour again with all the fish still March 5-7. This will involve tigable producer. Mrs. F. G. on board. Knocks were given and burning searchlights at both en-Hunt, and are perfectly delightful taken; coolies frantically elbowed trances to the harbour and firing The entire furnishing of the each other out of their way; free some rockets and Very's lights stage was kindly undertaken by fights were frequent; and the only from Stonecutters Island, Pak-Messrs. Lane, Crawford, Ltd.,

thing was by anyone with any inside know-surprising

that shawan (at Lyemun Pass) and under the direction of Mr. H. E. ledge of the racing.game. With nobody got knocked into the the other defences of the Colony. Scriven, again under the watchful of the producer with her purely amateur owners if the water or that some of the furious The probable duration of the exer-eve term can be understood as dis-blows exchanged did not prove cise each day is from 2 p.m. to many years' stage experience.

As the Directors of the 10 p.m. tinct from those owners elsewhere fatal. who make a decent living out of Steamboat Company are boasting owning race horses-and with (vide report of the annual meet- purely amateur riders, why ing this week) of effecting office CORRESPONDENCE should it be necessary for owners economies, let them disburse a to ride under names other than few dollars on preventing and not their own out here? Surely the inviting murder whenever one of "kudos" when they win must be their steamers comes in with a all the sweeter when their rider cargo of fish. Our Judges cannot brings in a pony that figures in for ever be conducting Criminal owner's real name. This is one tempted murders as features of the race programme under the Sessions with murders and at- of those little mysteries of the the calendars, Colony that a newcomer can never understand-even when, with the flight of years, he enters into the ranks of the "old hands.".

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BENEVOLENT SOCIETY

ITo the Editor of the "China Mail.”]

HOWLERS!

THE LATEST CROP

Parliament assembled in Octo-

Sir Walter. Scott was called Sir, Two years ago you the "Blizzard of the North." He were so kind as to publish un ap- tried to reach the North Pole but peal of mine for new members perished in the attempt. for the Benevolent Society. The results were satisfactory up to a A friend has passed point but at the present moment Cinemas on to the writer a in 1914 copy of a handbill of there are caly 72 members of the ber and dissembled in December.

This is a very small Society. the "Victoria Thea-

of tre, the Palace Hall of Entertain- tion of Hong Kong, which might

percentage

the popula- There seems ment," which once flourished (or Spitting Habit to be a slight otherwise) in the Colony. The be expected to show an interest

lapse on the handbill refers to a matinee at &

in the Society. The subscription part of those in charge of buses, p.m. on Sunday, October 4, 1914. tramways, and ferries in regard and the programme comprised to enforcing the "regulation" two parts:- against spitting-that disgusting and unhygienic habit that must do more than many other things to contribute to the spread of

Hong Kong, Saturday, Feb. 23, 1929. disease. Only a couple of days.

STILL WATERS

Bouquets are

Part I

1. Gaumont Graphic, No. 46. 2.-Plack Panther, Part L 3. Black Panther, Part II. 4.-Black Panther, Part III. Part II 1-Eccentric Dance. 2.-A Tight Fit-Comic.

was

TAYU PASS

Reds Capture Pass` Lending Into Kwangtang

Shanghai, Yesterday. Communist forces in Kiangs! province have captured the im portant Taya Pass leading to Kwangtung province, in the South. Reuter.

The man in the moon is all the moon because it gets smaller nonsense. People cannot live in and smaller and so they would all get squashed.

M.A, is what a B.A. becomes when she gets married.

Shakespeare was indebted to Sir Oliver Lodge for the plot of "As You Like It."

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Alves atta petunt means, "The birds are getting high,"

The imperfect tense in French is used to express a future action in past time which does not take place at all.

A circle is a line which meets

its other end continuously.

ago the writer, wearing all-rubber soles and heels, came a nasty cropper on a huge "spit" on the pavement outside the Asiatic The Victoria Theatre Building and nearly used "lan-situated opposite the Central guage," nearly sprained his wrist, Market in what is now called nearly sprained his ankle, nearly David House. "On Approval" not usually went to hospital, and nearly cinema folks of those days.dream Little did the presented to "passed the Monument at five that in this year of grace members of an amateur company o'clock." In the moment of dis- 1929 the Colony would boast of for membership is only $12 a or Philharmonic singers until the comfiture of "picking himself up" the Queen's Theatre, the World closing minutes of the final per considered that nothing sort of several others in Hong Kong, be-surance, for it enables the busy like a hole.

during the rush hour the victim Theatre, the Grand Theatre, and

year-$1 a month.

This small sum is a form of in- neither beginning nor end shaped A circle is a round line with formance, when we usually read the stocks would have been good sides the Star Theatre, the person who has no time to investi- of the stage being a vast moun-enough for the culprit who had Majestic Theatre, the Po Hing gate cases to learn immediately tain of floral tributes. It is as expectorated so freely well to deviate from the orthodox pavement at such a busy corner! Kowloon side. Even Shamshuipo It is very difficult to steel one's

on the Theatre, and a few more on the whether the piteous tale is true.ed circle." methods at times, particularly as, And travelling in the Ferry the has now two Chinese owned heart completely against a story owing to that welcome extra per- other day, a well-to-do Chinese cinemas all to itself, although the of misfortune--but it is easy to

A net is just a number of formance on Tuesday evening, the made a terrible mess of the floor bulk of the population there-send the applicant to have it sift-square holes tied together. public mind will be too full of in front of him, only stopping unlike those in Yaumati are ed by the Benevolent Society in racing to pay much attention to when he overheard the other pas generally in bed by ten o'clock at connection with the General "He was a publican." reading praise, even though well sengers threatening to report deserved, about our local Ham- him when the Ferry reached the night.

Charities Organisation. There is

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them

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An ellipse is an oval or squash-

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Il etait homme d'esprit means

nothing so unsatisfactory 68 Juvenis means "Lad": funfor

gift of five dollars to the unfor-

agement to him to prey upon duck. more soft-hearted people-a gift of five dollars to a deserving case

lets.

It is quite impossible Hong Kong side. Mere notices in for the writer to declare, as some public vehicles and Ferries are not Dreams are they? But ye cannot sporadic, unbalanced charity a means Ladder?" younger scribes have done, that sufficient in themselves to stop stay them. "On Approval" eclipses all pre- the spitting habit, and it is time

Or thrust the dawn back for tunate beggar is only an encour- A blizzard is the inside of a vious efforts of the Amateur that an example were made of

one hour! Dramatic Club. But it is certain- some of the more objectionable Truth, love and justice, if ye slay ly the best the very best-per- delinquents. It only requires

Return with more than earthly formance by our amateurs since firmness on the part of conductors the present writer came to the of buses and tramcara and Ferry Colony. Moreover, it easily officials to lessen such an obnoxi- stands the test of many superior ous practice. performances by most talented amateurs elsewhere in the Far East. It is good to be able to say

power.

taing

Strive, if ye will, to seal the foun- That send the Spring through

leaf and spray;

back the sun from the Eastern mountaină, Then bid this mightier move

ment stay.

-Alfred Noyes.

Mr. R. Vaughan-Fowler, of the

Do not

Cave canem means "Beware

is a mere sop to ease one's con-hatching chickens.

An incubus is 'n machine for science. So the Committee lays its plea,. for more members be- fore the generous community of lest I sing.". Hong Kong and hopes for a large increase of membership in 1920. Every sympathy Drive

In addition, may a plea be made Scotland and is so called because Hop Scotch was invented in so genuinely, for before the play |

Late Trams will be extended

for the annual report? was actually staged, there was a

and Ferries to the unfortun-

consign it to the waste paper time.

it wears out only one boot at a fear that a piece with only four

ate Peak, resi-

basket unread. There is un- members in the cast could not denta who were left be-

doubtedly something' antagonis- possibly be sustained in the hind lamenting

Seot free means the other man the other

ing in a report its shape alone buys the drink. Colony night after night. The night after

as a rule against it. But con- attending the prophets and the Jeremiahs have A.D.C. show and missing the Far East Aviation Co., delivered sidered reading of the compact been confounded, and all honour last tram to the heights above. a lecture at the University yes- report issued by the Benevolent An unclean spirit is a dirty possible is due to those who have The Peak Tram management terday on "Twenty-five Years of Society cannot but convince the

devil. must have been well aware of the Flying," illustrated by slides. He reader that here is, work, deserve Cedilia is what a Spanish wears 80 confounded them!

performances at the Theatre referred to the locally, projected ing of support work that pro-round her neck, With the an- Royal, and they ought to have Seaplane Flying Club and gave an tects the community at large and Racing Noma nual Race laid themselves out to study the assurance that Chinese members benefits those who have fallen on

de Plame meeting so convenience of their patrons would be very welcome. Profes

elose upon us, rather than risk being "laid out" sor C. A. Middleton Smith, Talkoo evil days. with its imminent outburst of by the aforesaid patrons for an Professor of Engineering, who excitement over the drawing of obvious sin of omission. It is no presided, moved a vote of thanks the various cash sweeps, one encouragement either of the to Mr. Vaughan-Fowler, cannot but wonder why race A.D.C or those who come long The Bavard Musical Comedy owners are permitted here year distances to see the perform after year to adopt nome de ances when no special arrange Company will give two perform affairs prevailing in the Colony is A synonym is what you write plume. The Colony is such a ments are made to take people ances to-day and to-morrow in the likely to bring increased calls when you don't know how to small one that the ownership of home after the shows More Bfar, Theatre at 5 and 0.15 p.m. upon the funds of the Society spell the other word.kuna an animal, even were it desired over, is it not time that both the To-day's matinee will be Tip during the coming year, the Com most devoutly to keep it trams (Peas and lovel) and the Toes," and "Clowns in Clover will mittee earnestly solicits contribu Ever since the 45 Rebellion the #dreadful secret" soon leaks out,

"To Morrow|tions which will be gratefully Scots have been singing "Oh! 'erries were run up to at least be given at and, in fact, is openly referred to 2 a. dally ?. It ought to be done Folllea Berge

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in those alleged training times in any case when there are enter at 6, and "Re that can never be seriously taken tainments at the Theatre Royal, 19.15 p.m.

Yours, etc.,

BELLA SOUTHORN.. Hong Kong, Feb. 22, [As the unsettled state of

An abstract noun is the name of something you cannot touch: for instance a red-hot poker.

Tennyson was the son of the in- ventor of Lawn Tennia.

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red by the Hon. Tren- Where's My Fourpence; Charlie?"!

Shellshear- Univer-The song was written and com

posed by John O'Groats,