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The next change at the Majestic ANDRES SEGOVIA Theatre, Kowloon, will be Charles Ray in "The Count of Ten."

For driving A truck, with- out a licence, a Chinese was fin- ed $4 at the Kowloon Court to- day:

Chan Han (18) was fined $5 for carrying two chickens by their wings, by the Kowloon Police Magistracy.

Kowloon areas.

WHO DESERVED BETTER OF HONG KONG

AN IMPRESSION

guitarist.

All these things DC- curred to us during that little pause while Segovia sat with his elbow, on his instrument and a slight aspect of despair in his thickset intelligent polse, moved as if to begin playing, and then while the

The marvel of it is that any true sat again for a little, artist ever finds it in him to come coolies yelled outside. But over all to Hong Kong at all. I should say was the eady assurance of the prac it is doubtful if they ever come tised artist, and presently with a twice. In the first place, the pro- little gesture of resignation he moter of these things is a man who went on with his programme. After evidently dislikes spending money all, the bringers of civilisation havė Five Chinese were, fined $2 each on advertising. Scarcely anhad to cope with misunderstood dif by, the Kowloon Magistrate for announcement foreshadows the arealtien ever since civilisation be hawking bananas in prohibited rival of Mr. Strok's celebrities. If gan.. In breaking new ground, we he thinks the mere whisper of their do not ask for the comforts of a reputation will bring the public of Metropolis. Singers and musicians Hong Kong to the City Hall, he has found their way in the early days. not yet learnt the public of Hong to Western States of America and Magistracy for carrying

two Kong. After all, we don't come to brought the wonder of their craft Hong Kong for civilisation; we to rough-clad hearers and rude chickens each by their wings,

come to make money out of China og halls. Only-are we, in Hong Being his first offence a Chin-as quickly as we conveniently can. Kong, so primitive? ese was cautioned by Mr. T. S. Anyone who wishes to make money Whyte Smith for removing earth out of us must adopt strictly com- from Ma Tau Wei-road without a mercial methods. permit.

Two Chinese were fined $5 and $8 respectively at the Kowloon

However, we had to suffer for our unpreparedness, the programme was

This, of course, is not for the altered and instead of some of the artists themselves. If it was, they

delicate things promised us in

The rooting over the Sanctuary would have no need of managers. newspapers, the programme consist- of St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon,

But Mr. Strok does not believe ined exclusively of mera sob staff, better capable of penetrating our unwelcoming atmosphere;

is undergoing repairs, after hav-advertisement. Having obtained a ing suffered damage by the typhoon little nearly free publicity through

the medium of the Hong Kong Musi- cal Society, which circularises its

of last month,

Wharf, Kowloon Godowne. She bas Come from Australia, via Manila and ports.

Stately Pieces But Bach remained. A- thining

For overcrowding a crate with 200 odd members on the advent of no doubt of the well-known 18, had 74 chickens, a Chinese, of Stall any Strok celebrity, our Far East said that he had heard Bach and No. 19, lunghom Market, was fin-showman expects the public to do enjoyed him on organ, piano and ed $15 at the Kowloon Police the rest. In the case of a singer, orchestra, and did not particularly his is all right. For some reason relish any experiments on the gui- Court this morning.

or other people will fiack in shoals tar. He was wrong. These gay and The E. & A. S.S. Co.'s s.s. "St. hear a singer. But the pianist, stately of pieces-Fugue, Courante, Albans" arrived in port at noon he never so famous, is locked on Sarabande and Gavotte-written to-day and berthed at the No. 3somewhat coldly, and 23 for the originally for the lute, might have

guitar

been specially designed for the The second deterrent facing the guitar and have been revived, as are Artist visiting Hong Kong is the many other forgotten lute pieces, conditions under which he has to for the master hand of Segovia. perform. One of the odd half dozen Probably best Because he stole a pair of

of all of these brown shoes, valued at two dollars control to detach themselves from Haydo, delicate, entrancing, with stragglers who had had the self old things was that Menuet of from Mahar Singh, a soldier-ser- their dinner tables in time to get to its counter melodies enhanced by at the mere suggestion of in-geant in the Officers'

Mess, the hall before the contest was due subtle changes of tone. Chinese coolie to begin, had seen our poor artist, that seductive Serenata of Malats, trigue or plotting, dissemminate Cameron-road,

was fined $10 or two week's jail, sitting in a room behind the stage with its haunting notes of song, the propaganda which they take from by Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith this running his fingers miserably over very notes to find their insinuating China, and hold secret meetings morning,

his new strings and shuddering way up in clad walls in moonlight. everytime a trami past.

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OUR LOCAL "REDS"

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at which the downfall of the Bri-.

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lar item on the programme.

The movement has now, it appears, spread to, or “arisen" in,' our own Colony of Hong Kong, and the number of arrests recent- ly made by the Police in connec- tion with the distribution of sedi- tious literature, assures us that

1929 rainfall..60.41 inches

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Deficit

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went roaring

And then

Malats one of the most promie- ing of the young French. musicians of last century: Madame, standing in the warm night outside the thea tre told us of our concours that she had attended Saint Sacns,

Considerable Emotion "He insists on having all the win dows shut," said my friend, mop- ping his forehead with his hand- kerchief. Segovia apuke In French Massanet, all the great men had and not too clearly at that, reing been there and she had implored under the influence of considerable her master to let her go, implored emotion. He had gleaned little him for weeks, and at last he had Having stolen a quilt, valu-from him.

let her go, and she had sat for hours, ed at $2.25 from 62 Laichikok- "Ce bruit 'epouvantable," mur-sideways, in a small cramped seat in the movement is on a sufficiently road a Chinese was fined $10 or mured the poor man, as a choras of a corner in the presence of the large and serious scale to warrant 14 days by Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith hooting motors rounded the corner most famous musicians of France. the firmest steps possible being this morning. For the theft of a outside, taken to eradicate it.

"Absolute silence pair of slippers, another Chinese We have!

the option of ... ... ... ....' was fined $5 with need of Bolshevists in the seven days' jail.

I gathered that the vibration of cours!", said Madame with rap- Colony, whether with the conni-

the noise upset the delicate tuning ture. Makts died early of consump- tion but left the world richer by a

no

as

She

a new portmanteau, a Chinese who

At that Concours Malats played,

is necessary and gained the first prize And I was there-j'ai assiste a ce con-

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| few things, of which this Serenata

C'est Terrible

the perfunctory clapping, bent his "Oui, ou," reassured Madame, thick black mane and his dark "c'est ici." It was the little bam-

And

vance of the Soviet Propaganda Beautiful photographs by a of the strings, quite apart from the

London artist depicting various noise itself. Bureau, which aims to bring the types of spectacle frames of Brl-

The stage was empty, but for is one. world under the spell of Com-tish manufacture are being shown single black chair and a tiny white

Madame also has heard of munism, or working independently in the window of Messrs. Lazarus. bamboo footstool.

"I think they might have given Segovia, heard he was coming, had The photographs will be changed zealous disciples of "the

ย black every few days and will show the him

footstool," said called, met him, helped. faith."

We have reason to be- correct frame for various uses dones, little knowing there had He was prostrate with the heat Hong Kong. Monday. Sept. 9. 1929. lieve, however, that the recent such as golfing, motoring, reading, been anxiety about getting a fect during the voyage. Helast What

I stool at all.

would he do? All his strings were movements in Hong Kong, do not evening wear, etc.

Some lights went out in the broken with the damp, he felt owe their origin to a few fanati- For hindering Acting Police auditorium and the hush of the miserable. Also he had forgotten cally-inspired, but harmless, Sergeant P. Barnicle in the execu- fans being shut off was his footstool, "Son petit bane," on accentuated by the chatter the boat. He knew not where to If anyone attempted to inter-idealists, but arise in rather tion of his duty in Canton-road on

of the particularly Inte ar-go.

Madame assured him she Saturday night a Chinese woman. sinister fere with or upset the domestic more

circumstances.

Lam Sum, described as an amah,.

rivals (not by any means the would get him another "petit affairs of the average man, it is There is evidence to show that was fined $5 or the Kowloon last) who happened to choose that banc." She came to the theatre only according to the logic of an activist is conducting a cam-Police Magistrate to-day.

moment to find their places. Andres and found him in the extreme of human behaviour that his actions paign in the Colony and elsewhere was to have helped in the escape wing to his solitary black chair and "Et le petit bane?" he exclaimed, Segovia walked across from the worry on account of the noise. of two hawkers who were hawking with a little bow to acknowledge "Vous l'avez?" would be resented. It is even against the Interests of His in a prohibited area. within the margin of possibility Majesty's Britannic Empire. that he would be suppressed by Assisted by agents and sub- Thinking that he would get

richly-deserved agents, and ignorant, but possibly through, because he was dressed rimmed spectacles over his instru-300 thing, white, incongruous, but punishment. Yet that is precise-well-paid agitators and seditious in European clothes, and carried rent and gently felt the stringe just right, Hong Kong's one con

for their final tuning up. It took tribution to

the success of the a little time, and in the meanwhile evening.. ly what the Bolshevist agitators, bill-hawkers, he is endeavouring alighted from a train was search-

there was A slightly horrified The latter part of the pro- who have the support of the to create a situation here which led by R. O. Fallon at the Kowloon pause as a tram rumbled by. gramme was pure Spanish.

Railway Station yesterday, and 38 think he must have been U.SS.R., are attempting to do in can never arise, owing to the gen-taels of raw opium were found in reassured. They make leas a little as everyone knows, the guitar is the various counties

eral good sense of the people. the bag. of the

This morning he was from the

noise the National instrument of Spain. But he must be suppressed, to fined $1,140 or, in default six little hack room.

stage than from that Forgetting all discomforts and dis- world. In spite of the apparent

turbances we gave ourselves up to desire of the Soviet to resume gether with his agents and sub-months' hard labour, by the Kow-

With 2 final flourish loon Magistrate.

of the enjoyment of these sunny's his hand over the relations with Great Britain, a agents, and be inflicted with the

stringa sinuous melodies. he embarked on that do- persistent campaign of agitation severest punishment under the An unemployed Chinese coolie was lighted old "Etudo in C and for sal sense.

I say we, but not in any univer- and sedition is being directed legislature. Public opinion in the fined $5 by the Kowloon Magistrate a little while the artist was lost to only poor in numbers but in appre Our audience was not on Saturday with the option of all. against the British Empire, in a

Colony is most strongly opposed

This first thing showed clation. seven days' hard labour for the theft us at once the wonderful variety of him one somewhat grudging, en- At the end they gave vain effort to dissemble its im-to these despicable attacks upon of two pairs of female trousers from tones that await his mortal unity. Whilst the dis- the British Empire, and would the mistress of a cargo boat lying the

command, core and then hastened to collect light humorous, seductive themselves. Segovia himself came ruption of the Empire cannot be welcome a tightening up of the re.at the Kowloon Godown Wharf. twangs, the conversational midle back thrice without his instru- wrought by a few fanatical subgulations and, perhaps, increased her trousers at 9 o'clock on Friday tones that bring out the song of the I think he was relieved to have Complainant stated that she washed notes, and those deep flute-like ment before giving the encore and agents holding clandestine meet-powers for the Criminal Investi-night and when she woke up in the contrapuntal passages. ings, handing out alarmist hand gation Department especially to morning they were gone!

the ordeal over. I fancy we shall not see him again in Hong Kong, bills to illiterates, and generally deal with this vital problem.

The applause at the end of this not at A coolie was fined $5 by the Kow was very different to the clap- provided

any rate until we have disemminating that kind of poli-

Joon Police magistrate on Saturday, ping that greeted the

accommodation- worth unknown tical filth which has come to be)

for carrying two chickens by their man. Segovia got up, bowed, sat myself I am grateful to the par- calling a concert hall. But for known as "Red" literature, it

ahip remarked that the reason why over the wings, with legs tied up. His Wor-down, again, ran his hand lightly simonious Mr. Strok for giving me causes breaches of the peace, and

strings, adjusting the one of the most delightful even Chinese carried poultry like that tuning, and then rested his elbow inga of my musical experience. also tends, perhaps, to create a

was because they usually had their on his instrument and gazed to-

→G. H. degree of dissatisfaction among out a hawker's Licence, a Chinese Inspector Stimson observed that The shrill voice of female coelies Because he hawked peanuts with hands full with other things.wards the corner of the theatre. certain sections of the labouring was fined four dollara by the Kow- two chickens could easily be carried arguing just outside filled the air

THE BLUE BOY 19 and factory classes. In that, it is loon Police Magistrate on Saturday. under the accuseda arm,

with more sound than the guitar harmful to our prestige, and

gives on its more delicate tones, The famous painting, "The Blue leads the victims of such pro- Charles Surplice, of Worthing, tracy on Saturday before Mr. T. S. business to see about unnecessary Britain shortly for America as the

The late Mr. Frederick Robert Appearing at the Kowloon Magla- No one bothered. It is

nobody's Boy", by Romney, is likely to Icava paganda to form bitter and malig-formerly of the Chinese Imperial Whyte-Smith for the larceny of a noise either without or within the result of its sale to the nant feelings on perfectly base Maritime Customs Service, Shang silver watch, an alarm clock, a watch theatre, nobody's business to see Galleries of New York. The pur- less suppositions.

hai, left £8,806 (net personalty chain, a smoking pipe, a piece of that we have a theatre fit to give chase price of the picture is not £6,828). The Communist movement

satin, six plece of female clothing, a concert of any finer quality disclosed, but it is believed to be and a suit case from a married than that of a military band, no-considerable. The sale was nego- brives at its most in British A motor car collision was reported woman living at 26 Sha Fo Road, a body's business to look after tiated by Mr. Ehrich, who is at Malaya, where the Hylam house to the Police yesterday. It says Chinese girl was remanded for 48 things generally, to provide de present staying in London. The that a private vehicle, owned by Mr. hours in Police custody on the ap cent seats for the audience, or o5- owner of the picture, Mr. Walter boys, of an island-sprung com- C. Mow Fung, came in contact plication of Sergt. Sherry, who in cillating fans that actually astil S. M. Burn, of London. Inherited it munity whose mentality is pecu- with a hired car. The former's dicated that there might be more late, a piano worthy of a planist, from his mother, a sister of the larly favourable to excitation machine was badly damaged.

or even a footstool worthy of a late Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan,

For driving a hand truck without Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith at Kowloon a licence a Chinese was fined $4 by

on Saturday.

charges.

The Unknown Man

Ehrich