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MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 1929.

CHRISTIAN SERVICE

THE CHINA MAIL,

“SLOW MOTION” GOLF “MANTLE” OF EDISON SHADOws before.

K

CARMEN"

A PRAYER AND BIBLE 'CONFERENCE

TO BE BROADCAST. THIS EVENING

TENDENCY TO TAKE MORE

TIME 1 i

A WHOLE OPERA

FOUR DAYS' PROGRAMME

TO DESCEND ON THE SON COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED

OF A BISHOP?

IN "CHINA MAIL"

The incident, or incidents, in CHOICE FROM ALL-AMERICA which, T. P. Perkins was concerned

New York, Saturday,

Mr.

answers to Г

A four days prayer and Bible To-night local "listeners in" to in the Amateur Championship will conference in English is announe the Government Broadcasting Sta-almost certainly have the effect of A 16 years old boy,, Wilbur to mark the open-tion are promised a special attrae- bringing up again the whole ques-Huston, the son of an Episcopalian ved to be held

ing of the Friendly League for tion in operatie work. For the first tion of what has been called "slow Bishop, has won the scholarship

This question of offered by the Christian Service in the Chater time in Columbia electrical record-motion" golf.

on the golf world famous Bangalow at 140-142, Nathan-road, ing, a whole grand opera has been abnormal slowness

made available for the home. links has cropped up before, and inventor, adjoining St. Andrew's Church.

Carmen shares with Faust and there is very little doubt that Thomas Edison, The Her. R. A. Jaffray, who will arrive from a three months trip Aida the rank of being one of the there is a growing tendency on for the best to the South Seas, on Wednesday, worid's three most popular operas. the part of golfers, and parti will conduct a service at 8 pm. It is sung in the original languagecularly the younger ones, to take questionnaire from Revelations. and the recording is by the fore- longer over their rounds than usod with lessons

artists with whom to be customary. says The Bogey There will be a song service at most French

Columbia has exclusive contract. Man in the "Athletic News."

This realistic drama is so boldly I am myself a very quick player

and hate to be held up on

but, though the motion" player is an unmitigated to will now nuisance at busy week-ends, or when seaside courses are crowded at holiday times, we should bo mecting will be held for women heights of tragic expression which careful in our criticism.

7.30.

These meetings will be continu- cd during the week, including Saturday evening, and closing on Sunday with a service at 3 p.m.

The subject will be "The Seven. Feasts of larael."

On Friday afternoon at 2,80 a

presented and clothed with music

of such unfailing beauty and

sincerity that it casts a spell of weird fascination on all hearers rush of colour and Carmen is a action-the magic attains to

courec,

the "slow

It is

Edison himself? (set by Mr.

by any Ameri- can under- graduate.

Master Hus-

Mr. Edison

Social Functions Today Dinner Dances at Hong Kong Hotel, Repulse Bay Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, 8.30 p.m.

Aug. 20-At European Y.M.C.A. Kowloon, Flannel Dance, 9 p.x.

Entertainments

To-day Queen's Theatre; "Uncle Tom's Cabin.'

To-day Work Theatre; "Out All Night."

Po-day Star Theatre; "Detectives."

To-day Majestic Theatre: "Silk Stockings."

Lammerts' Auctions Aug. At 1, A. 0. D. Block, Kennedy-road, Hong Kong, house- hold furniture, 11 a.m.

Building, Kowloon, household fur- Aug. 7-At 42, Humphreys' niture, 11 am.

only. This will be in the inter few composers have ever surpas-quite certain that, whatever may Technology at Mr. Edison's expense. dell-street, valuable leasehold pro-

ests of the Rescue Work for

sionaries or mothers interested in

ed.

be said or done, a round during a The story of the opera is within championship or other important Cantonese Slave Girls." Any mis-itself enthralling. Carmen, the meeting will always be a rather Chinese helpless women and girls than a splendid animal, Irresistible siderable allowance must be made gypsy heroine, is hardly more long-drawn-out business. Con- will be 'welcome. The Friendly in her passionate beauty, superb for temperament and style. and, League for Christian Service value in her physical courage, knowing after all, provided he be not too co-operation, in prayer and fellow-no law higher than her own

outrageously slow, ship, in launching this work for desires.

every com- In her many conquests petitor has a right to adopt the these outcast girls.

or

res-

she brooks 710 barrier The League is not, however, ex-traints. A wild amorous coquette, pecting to receive this class into a madcap flirt, but compellingly its headquarters at the present lovable.

time. Homer must be provided Raymonde Visconti is a Carmen for thern apart from the bungalow of rate individuality. Few singers which accommodates il limited number of foreigners.

While the motto of the League is "Others." and its object is to help the "other girl" worse off than our daughters yet, in the initial stages the League is con- centrating on a Headquarters for ladies superintending the work and girls attending the Central British School.

Hostel for Girls After the Missionary Confer- ence at Cheung Chow last summer the Friendly League started a hostel for missionary children at tending the Central and Junior British Schools. This meets the

can thus "act with the voice" and few records are so full of personality as Miss Visconti's "Habanera" and "Seguidille." The death scene, tao, is treated with startling realism.

Marthe Nespoulous portrays very finely the contrasting innocence and charm of Micaela-a tinguished performance.

most dis-

methods best suited to himself.

"Slow motion" golf may be due

to one of three causes-or a com-

DRINK

EXSHAW

BRANDY

bination of two or even all three It may be due to slow of them. walking between shots, great de- liberation over the taking of shots with many waggles-or to ex- treme care in the matter of sur-

George Thill, famous French tenor, is ideally east as Don Jose, He gives some fine lyric touches toʻ the charming scene with Micaela.veying the land, walking forward the final duet he rises to thrilling! but later in the Flower Song" and before playing and so on. heights of emotional expression.

Duncan and Hagen

Forty-nine

have a chance of becoming Mr. Edison's successor. He will undergo four years' training in the Massachusetts Institute of

Aug. 7-At Sales Room, Dud-

hoye, representing perty (situated at Shameen, Can- every State in the USA. sat for the ton). 3 p.m.

the President of the Massachusetts examination.

Aug. 8-At 10A, Mody Road, Kow- Mr. Edison assisted Mr.-Stratton, loon, household furniture, 11 am.

Aug. 8At Sales Room, Duddell Institute of Technology, in conduct- Street, a collection of curios, 2:30 ing the examination. Mr. Henry p.m. Ford (the motor magnate) and Colonel Lindbergh (the trans-Atlan- tie flyer) sat up all night examining

the papers sent in.-Reuter's Ameri.

can Service.

Sport

To-day-Happy Valley Summer

Golf Meeting for Championship and Captain's Cup."

Aug. 15-At European Y.M.C.A÷ hard courts, knock-out tennis tour- ney, 5.15 p.m.

Land Sale

Aug. 6 At P.W.D. Offices two lots of Crown land at Prince Edward Road, Kowloon, and Yaumati.

Home Mail

IN OTHER PLACES

CHRONICLES FROM JAPAN TO JAVA

Dr. Alfred S, K. Sze, Chinese

the Court of St. -To-morrow-Outward for Canada, Minister to

and James's, left Shanghai recently for, U.S.A., Central

South America, and Europe via Victoria Tientsin.

B.C. ("Prea. Grant"). 8.30 a.m.; The Rev. W. El Horley, M.B.E., and for Europe vla Marscilles has been granted a licence to ("Patroclus"), 6 p.m. solemnize marriages in the Straits Settlements.

The

Miscellaneous

I do not believe that there is a

Aug. 10 and 24-European M. Guenot is appropriately full-single golfer of any standing-or

Hon. Mr. A. McKenzie Y.M.C.A. bathing plenics. for that matter who de (Singapore) is to be a member of voiced and swaggering as! home

Aug. Sanitary Board Meeting, Escamillo; his "Toreador Song" is liberately wastes time. He simply the Indian Immigration Committee, 4.15 p.m. need of a hostel for preparatory rendered with splendid vigour and takes what course he considers is during the absence on leave of Mr. work,

best calculated to assist him to H. E. Nixon. The need for a hostel for girls magnificent power.

There are slow is the next step. Owing to poli-

The smaller parts are in excep- produce his best.

Dr. J. W. Adams, Surgeon, tical and financial conditions, mis- tionally competent hands, so that golfers among the professionals sionaries find it difficult to con- the brilliant Quintette and Sextette as well as among the amateurs. Penang, is to act as Chief Medical tinué sending their children to the are done with far more finish than Walter Hagen has been described Officer, Penang, and Mr. T. D. as a slow golfer, but he never Hughes, M.C.S., is to act as District On the whole. Carmen is one of wastes time.

If he can summon Officer, Christmas Island. the most stupendous things ever up a mental picture of the shot he

warts to play, and the distance, at Mr. W. H. Dinsmore is to act. done in the history of recording. “

(The programme in detail appears a glance, the shot follows im- temporarily as a Judge of the on page 11.3

mediately. But he may consider Supreme Court, Straits Settlements, it necessary to walk forward quite from August 6 for the duration of

American school in Shanghai and the China Inland Mission School

no

in Chefoo. With the educational advantages, from preparatory to the University offered by the Bri- tish Government, there is reason why missionaries should not co-operate in these schools. A Home for both boys and girls is therefore the present need. A library. musie hall, domestic science class for those In resi- dence, as well as other classes along practical lines for girls, can be operated.

is usual.

BIG FORD PLANS

20,000 CARS IN ENGLAND NEXT YEAR

It is understood, according to a

Union. Government has

no objec-

Johannesburg message, that the tion to the British proposal for a renewal of relations with Soviet Russia,

A violent Storm has caused ex- tensive damage at Nikolsk and

a considerable distance before go-the Court of Appeal at Penang. Ussuriisk, in Eastern Russia, ing to his ball. It is the same on

where the railway track has been

the greens. He may get the The Exequatur empowering washed away, bridges destroyed, line" at first glance, or the line Luang Vudhi-At-Natigun to act as and rice helds flooded. may take a lot of finding from Siamese Vice-Consul at Singapore various angles. Temperament was signed by the Counsellors of plays a big part in "slow motion" State on behalf of His Majesty the golf. One could not imagine King on May 4. Duncan taking as long over certain

shots as Hagen and many other Lient, J. Calder, Straits Settle- famous players.

New York, June 23. Mr. Edsel Ford, president of Ford Motor Company, who return The desire is not to overlap in ed here yesterday after a six any work either secular, educa- weeks inspection of the foreign

ments Volunteer Force, has been tional, or religious, but to activities of the company, said that,

One often hears it said: "S-transferred to the Straits Settle- supplement the efforts toward according to present indications; and-go cannot possibly get any ments Volunteer Force Reserve of supplying a felt need for mission the English Ford concern would benefit from such slow and studied Officers. A commission as Lieuten ary and other children not resid-producé nearly fifty thousand

But who shall decide?ant in the S.S.V.F. has been grant- ing in the Colony.

motor-cars this year, and it was expected that the total would reath After all, if a player thinks he is ed to Second-Lieutenant C. A. two hundred thousand next year.: henefiting, he probably is, as any Scott, S.S. Reserve of Officers. In this same connection the The demand throughout Europe, student of psychology would tell Friendly League is concentrating he asserted, was increasing steadi- first of all on the European class, ly. The Chinese (local born) have

advantage every

in boarding schools provided by missions locat-

European Class

methods."

Mr.

A Reason For Loss Of Memory.

are

In many instances loss of

memory is due to nothing else but anaemia of the brain, All blood- less people, in fact, whose brains under the influence of anaemia, are able to suffer from faulty memory. In some cases you.

this develops so seriously that the Unless he has the course to him-Chinese Minister to Japan who name and address, and are not re- Waung Yung-pao,

the victims

cannot' 'remember “ their: self-and even then there is as returned to China recently to at-stored to their relations until their partner to consider a golfer

tend the State burial of Dr. Sun identity is established in some should always remember that too Yat-sen, sailed for Japan on the deliberate methods are likely to "Taiyo Maru" Prior to leaving

way. affect the pleasure and play of Shanghai the Minister is quoted as

The many forms of anaemia, in- others. He should do his very claiming that Japan is willing to cluding cerebral anaemia, yield to At the Mersey Docks and flarbour best not to waste time, and, even cancel the Sino-Japanese Treaty if the powers of Dr. Willlans Pink Board meeting, the chaizman, Mr, if he feels that he must be de- Great Britain and America cancel Fills because these Pills have a Richard D. Holt, announced that Mr. iiberate, he can

often save time theirs.

MERSEY BOARD

+

A. LIVERPOOL SHIPOWNER'S

RESIGNATION

ed in the Colony for years.

A house is available at Cheung Chow to accommodate groups of girls first of all from the Cen- tral. British School. Anyone wish- ing to take advantage of this is asked to write to or call personal ly at the Chater Bungalow on Thuraday at 230. A meeting will be held at that hour to disenss

ion from the Board. Mr. Holt said A. B. Cauty had tendered his resigna-walking between shots and in he had received a letter from Me. Cauty, in the following terms:

other

ways.

Going Through

special action on the bloud, which they build up and refresh with Shanghai armed robbers recently new vitality. All feeble men and obtained $578 at a Chinese dwell- nervous pallid women will greatly. Dear Mr. Chairman. It is with vary The R. and A. have a definite ing house in East Yuhang Road but benefit by a course or Dr. much regret that I find it necessary, ways and means to forward this owing to the transfer of my business rule that, should a couple not be their leader became angry because People, because by renewing and vacation outing under proper headquartere Liverpool to Lon-holding their place, the following one dollar of the loot was counter

supervision, as well as means to den at the end of this week, to tender couple may request to be allowed feit. To prove that he was really enriching the impoverished blood

you resignation of my seat on

help girls in their social life. board. I have found the work on the to go through, but, in champion displeased the leader rapped one of fresh nourishment is rapidly pro- This is, of course, along strictly Board particularly interesting, which ships and big competitions gen the occupants of the house on the vided for the exhausted nerves, religious lines as the C.FM accentuates my disappointment at have erally, it is a right rarely exercis- head with the butt end of a pistol. the brain becomes invigorated, and School in Chefoo, which so manying to give it up, but in doing so I ed, and would help little if it were. The robbers were four in number, as a result the memory improves

Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are ob- tainable from chemists every

children from South China have would like to express my great appre- After all, who shall say how any two being armed with pistols, saya alao.

ciation of the courtesy and considera hard and fast rule can be laid a Shanghai contemporary. tion I bave always received at your

down? It is simply impossible.

attended,

A Language School

A language school will be con- ducted in this connection Mr.

hands, and also from my fellow-me One man cannot be judged by an- Ti Sung, Abbot of the Zeu Sun where, or post tree. at $1.50 per bera...

My going does not mean any other. Blow play is not even nee-Den Temple, has been deposed, at bottle, $8 for six bottles, from the weakening of the ties between the White Star Line and the port of cessarily caused solely by over-cording to the Chinese press, and Dr. Williams Medicine Co., 60,

languages school in the Univer- moto vessel "Britannic" which we are the man who is continually off has taken full charge. Ti Sung b

stool in the Uon the Liverpool; on the contrary, the new deliberation or care. What about has been succeeded by T Min, who Kargae Road, Shanghai.

aity, will demonstrate his course now building at Fulfast, is for cur the line, has longer to walk, and was recently ordered to leave the

during August and September. be the largest vessel trading

Liverpool-New York service, and will is for ever taking a few temple at once the order being

Then a regular class, following port, which shows et coing out of the at least to find his ball seconds fasued by the Provisional Court on OLD TAYLOR

continued

great undertaking, under, your able

his course, will be conducted situation. It is reasonable and right that a the ground that he had been dis- throughout the year. Any mis In conclusion, I would wish the Board notoriously low player should be missed by the Woochow Guild for sionaries or residents, irrespective

success in the handling of its given tactfully and pleasantly, a alleged violation of Buddhistic re- of nationality, are welcome to at chairmanship, for the benefit of a tip that he should, so far as p

gulations. tend. For the present Mrs. using the port. Yours, faithfully,aible, bringten up, but I do not Jaffray is in charge. It is hopet Signed) A B. CAUTY Bee how more than that can be

however, to secure efficient lady

ACED BY TIME

expressed regret at

Holt, on behalf of the Board, managed unless there is reason to A FLAMING ROMANCE OF THE TROPIC teachers and workers from Amerisignation which was accepted,

Mr. Canty's re-

suppose that such selfishness is

ca and Canada in due time. Mr. Cauty was elected to the Board deliberate. In any event, I can-

As this work is supported on an October 14, 1926, in succession to not but feel that the Champio

the late Colonel Concanon. He was a chip is not the best pccasion on

voluntary basis the Friendly

League in distributing Do With out Fund00x

support

school

member of the Docks and Quays Com which to launch a crusade, nor mitter, Marine Committee, Traffe Com

mitter and the Works Committee. Champion

Cantonese Gris

victim

the most spli

Incidents

GRETA

Wild Orchids

GARBO

QUEEN'S

IN COMPLETE FFORM

IN FRENCH: WITH PRINTED ENGLISH TEXT

CARMEN

Columbia proceso RECORDS

LISTENIN

ON MONDAY, AUG. 5th Z.B.W.

“ CARMEN.”

OPERA IN FOUR ACTS SUNG IN FRENCH.

CARMEN MICAELA FRASQUITA MERCEDES

DON JOSE ESCAMILLO DANCAIRE

THE CAST

R. Visconte

Mezzo-Soprano.

M. Nespouloue Soprano.

A. Vavon

...A. Bernadet

G. Thill

M. Guenot

M. Roussel

REMINDADO... M. Mathyl

Tenor. Baritone.

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