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will be held (weather permitting) at Happy Valley on SATURDAY, 27th Sep- tember, 1930, commencing. nt 2
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AMUSEMENT
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QUEEN'S present Victor Me- The Laylen in "Hot for Paris." story revolves around McLaglen, first mate of a windjammer, who buys a ticket which wins the big prize in the Grand Prix in Paris" He does not know he has won a
million and the sweepstakes office, where he purchased the ticket, per badges prominently displayed. sistently hunts to find him. Be
No one without a badge will believing that they
are officers on admitted to the Members' Enclo- his trail he eludes them and in running away encounters Fif Badges admitting non-members D'Orsay, a singer and dancer in to the Members Enclosure and cafe at Havre, falls in love with "Chil” Rooms at $5 for Gentlemen her and has many hilarious adven- and 32 for Ladies, are obtainable tures leading to an amazing cons through the Secretary upon intro- elusion. A talkie film. duction by A member. such member to be responsible for pay- ment of all chits, &c.
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RUSSIA'S LACK OF WOMEN.
Lenin's Widow Noted. Figure.
NO WOMAN'S PARTY.
It is a curious phenomenon that, although women enjoy the franchise terms with men, there is no such In Soviet Russia on exactly, equal
thing as a "woman's party" or a woman's vote" as a specific factor in political considerations. There is not a single woman in the supreme politburo." "orgburo" or Commun- ist party secrétariat, and the sole woman member, Mme Krupskaya" of the Communist party Central Committee, doubtless owes her posi- CENTRAL features John Bolestion no less to the respect, for and Bebe Daniele in "Rio Rita," Lenin's widow than to her own per- a colourful romance of spectacular sonality. In other words, among scenes and hilarious comedy. The the hundred men who rule the Bol- singing of John Boles is sheer shevist part and through it the ecstasy and Bebe Daniels plays whole Soviet Union--by membership Members can obtain, upon ap her role in musical comedy with in, the bureau's secretariat com- plication, to the Secretary, badges very creditable success. An ap-mittee, there is only one woman (limited to two) for the free ad-pealing story, beautiful songs, and who made such a display of opposi- mission to the Members Enclosure a splendid chorus make this film ation in the pre-convention campaign of wives, lady relatives and strong rival to "The Love Parade." that in spite of her confession of friends. Names must be stated A talkie film.. when applying.
Badges admitting to Members' Enclosure will not be on sale at the Race Course.
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On no pretext will children be MAJESTIC presents Clara Bow permitted in either Enclosure dur, in "The Fleet's In!", a rollicking ing the Meeting.
comedy with Clara in her best form of entertainment. A silent film.
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE
The price of admission to the. As an additional attraction the Public Enclosure
is
$1
error she probably would have been dropped from the committee had she never married Lenin.
Women's Record. Must one conclude from this that political Russian women have no aptitude? It seems unlikely' when one considers that long list of noted
for theatre presents on the stage women revolutionaries in Czarist
all'
persons Including ladies. Eleanore Ninon and Leo Mantin and is payable at the Gate,
in "Gay Paree." Attractive songs Soldiers and Sailors in uniform and delightful dancing are the are admitted half price.
features of a splendid little en- Bookmakers, Tic Tac men, &c. "tertainment. will not be permitted to operate within the precincts of the Hong Kong Jockey Club during the Rate Meeting.
By Order,
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than
The American Relief Administra- tion, which employed more 100,000 Russians for its famine re- lief, found wonien on the whole more competent than men. Yet STAR features Lillian Gish in the fact remains that, although "The Scarlet Letter." The picture women slightly outnumber the men has been staged on a lavish scale in the Soviet Union and have the with a large east of celebrities. Identical franchise, there is no wo As the little scamstress whose man's party. There is no woman in great love caused her to rise to the Council of Commissars and only almost angelic heights, Miss Gigh one woman sitting, more or less on gives a memorable performance. sufferance, in the 'ruling hierarchy Consummate artistry marka every of the Communist party,” phase of her struggle against in-| HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB tolerance. and the climax holds
one spellbound. A silent film.
C. B. BROWN,
Secretary. Hong Kong, 20th Sept.. 1930.
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more,
It is hard to find an explanation of this apparent anomaly. Is it sex prejudice? Communists profess to RAFT
and PROGRAMMES
have none, and there surely isn't ENTRY FORMS for the WORLD presents John Gilbert much in the higher ranks of the EIGHTH EXTRA RACE MEET-and Greta Garbo in Flesh and the party. What is
when the ING to be held on FRIDAY, 10th Devil" Elaborate replicas of old Mandate Committee made its report October and
SATURDAY, German castles, a complete repro- to the convention about delegates 11th October, 1930 (weather per- duction of the Berlin rallway ata-andusaid that there were 165 women
markable feats of screen construc- total altogether, the percentage of tion make, the picture so authen- women in the Communist party as a tic that one would imagine it had whole is around 15 per cent,- actually been filmed in Europe, several voices cried "That's too A silent film.
few."
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ITALY'S MISFORTUNE
PLEA OF WOULD-BE ASSASSINATOR.
Brussels, Yesterday, The trial of Fernando de Ross, who attempted to assassinate the Italian Crown Prince in Brussels last year, has opened at the Palais
de Justice.
Active workers among women Communists are fully as earnest and energetic as. their male com- rades and are generally more sober and more devoted, which makes it all the more mysterious. Perhaps the answer is to be found in the fact that the Communist party and the Soviet adminstration, which leaders at least were intellectuals, began life as a small group whose to-day is becoming more and more well as in name, a party and gov genuinely proletarian-in truth as ernment of workers and peasants.
In his statement to the Court, De Rosa declared that he had committed the crime in order to draw the at-
Women Have. Little Time. tention of the democracles of Europe
Before the Bolshevist revolution, to the misfortunes of his country working class and peasant women The trial was adjourned.—Reuter.
hail little change of educa.ion, or [Fernando de Rosa was a student time for it, if chance occurred. Even
of Milan, 21 years of age.. He
now the commodity · shortage and End arrived the same day from the host of other difficulties of the Paria. The Crown Prince had just alighted from a motor car with present situation must by the na ture of things press harder on wreath and was proceeding to women than on men, at least as far place it on the tomb of the Unknown as their time is concerned. Women Soldier, when De Rosa forted his are playing a big role in party and way through the crowd with a re-administrative works, but it is volver which he pointed at the mostly in the lower ranks that in Crown Prince, A motor cycle
among the younger generation, policeman struck down his arm Older women of the profetarlan and the bullet struck the road.]
PLOTTERS AGAINST SOVIET.
London, Yesterday.
class could not spare the time for- merly, and can hardly spare it now. The absence of a woman's party and a woman's vote as such does not mean there is no "woman's move- Confirmation has been received ment." There is one and it is gain- ceived from Moscow of the reporting strength each day, especially from Rigs of the execution of 48 in the development of collective alleged counter-revolutionaries, In- farms, which is really an agrarlan cluding Professor Rianzanyaev, révolution.
and M. Karatyguln, the former chief editor of the Trade and In-
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common in deep fresh, water swamps The building is spacious, well and on abandoned, mining land. ventilated and illuminated, Waust In 1928, an enterprising Chinese a feature is the teak panelling on at Menglembu utilised the root wood walls, pillars and ice boxes. The of this plant for making hats. The two long counters, fringed with Industry, we understand, la comman found steele, are of marble and in Cochin China, soys the Malayn tiles, contrasting with the mosaic Daily Express, flooring.
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There have been several company meetings of consider-, able interest during the week. At one of them, a motion was approved for an additional share issue by the Dairy Farm, Ice, and Cold Storage Company, Limited. A motion → to increase the fees of directors of the Hong Kong, Canton, and Macao Steamboat Company, also went into effect.. The * OVERLAND CHINA MAIL caries a full report of these meetings, together with the report presented to shareholders at a meeting of the Hong Kong and Canton Ice Co., Ltd.
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