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Hong Kong, Saturday, Jan. 3, 1931.

ADVERSARIA.

mysterious

the interval. Now it was a nice show, wasn't it?"

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At a time when The Crime the Government Of Poverty of this Colony

SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 1931

1931 CALENDARS,

EMULATION IN ATTRACTIVE DESIGNS.

has deemed it Like Christmas cards, calendars expedient to appoint a commission will never die out, and each year to investigate the conditions ob- the arts of the printer and the litho taining in Victoria Gaol, it willgrapher appear to forge ahead of not be out of place perhaps to previous efforts. direct the attention of the public

ROUND THE CINEMAS DOROTHY JORDAN'S ADVICE ON VOICE CULTURE.

IN GAY MADRID."

Talking pletures and radios have focused the interest of the work on the voice, with the result that every Copies of the following calendars one seems to be going in for vice Husky contraltos and quke so-

to another Government institu- for 1931 have been received by the culture. tion where men are kept cabined China Mail:- and confined. This is the hardly From the Wah Mei Co., electrical pranos are vying with each other luxurious hostelry known as the denters, 185 Des Voeux Road Con- for supremacy in the ainging wird, Victoria Detention House, Wetral, a calendar with a profile of while speaking voices are also be understand from a lately released lovely maiden in colours, with ing pitched in move musical tolos. inmate that anyone convicted of two Indian maidens kneeling at

Further benefits are being noted vagrancy is taken to this institu-ench corner of the bottom.

by the development of correct ar tion and lodged in a cell measur-

D. Chellarant and Co. are happy riages. for an upright body is e-

ing about ten feet square. It con- in their choice of a calendar acessary for both singing and tains one tiny window heavily bird nesting on the arm of a maiden, elocution results. grilled with iron bars, a folding the picture being entitled "A Song For those who have no time aluminium table attached to the to Beauty's Queen."

money wall, and. a

for professional guidanc bed. The con-

From the Dairen Kisen Kaisha there are home exercises which wil

victed person is examined on ar- come four typical specimens of help one to breathe correctly and rival by Indian policemen, made Japanese art-a different picture will teach one to relax the jaws and to exchange his clothes for a for each quarter of the year with control the voice. khaki suit with a broad BITOW calendar below.

By practising the scales, begin- stamped on the back, and has his. "Childhood's Treasures" is the ning at the lower notes and slowly finger prints taken. Everything name of the very charming calen-going up, alurring the octaves to- that he owns is taken from himdar issued by the Pharmacy. gether while sounding a broad "A" and he is not allowed to smoke or Equally happy is the choice of until the top note is comfortably to have anything to read. His the Queen's Dispensary-a dainty reached without straining, and re- food consists of bread, water and picture calendar entitled "The peating the exercise two gruel. He is allowed to leave his Post Boy's Story,"

times before starting from the top cell for three or four hours each An original etching of The note down, the voice will become day in order to look for a job, but Strand, London, comes from the flexible and trained. during the week-end he is securely Dunlop Rubber Company (China), locked up. In fact, he is branded Limited-s most artistic piece of above advice, plays the femiaine Dorothy Jordan, who gives the and treated as a criminal, al-work worthy of one's drawing-lead opposite Ramon Novarro in though he may not have room.

"In Gay Madrid" now showing In

committed

an actual offence The N.Y.K. havo issued a useful the Queen's Theatre. the whole of his life. calendar surmounted by the head Treatment of this kind would not and bust of a little Japanese girl

in

or three

"MOVIETONE FOLLIES"

Seven new songs, many of them

be tolerated for one moment in holding her doll, the colours being destined for certain popularity, are

Britain. Why should it be allow nicely blended. ed to prevail in a Crown Colony? The Commission, we think, has another task before it.

Winter Draws On.

Included in "The New Movietone From the P. & O. Company and Follies of 1930," romantic comedy, B. 1. Company comes a useful wall which comes to-morrow to

the e calendar with a fine picture of ons Queen's Theatre. of their large linera.

Three teams Neat and useful calendars writers

of famous song collaborated

theso

"Emily Brown" and

Con Conrad and Jack, Cliff Friend and Jimmie

In

* * * pay its high fees. What differ-

Winter draws on, entiates a Public School from any

as the clergyman are forwarded by Mesars. Butterfield melodies. "I'd Love to be a Talk- other educational institution is

said, but we & Swire on behalf of the A.O. Line ing Picture Queen" and "You'll the possession of a

should like to lay and the Blue Funnel Line. The Give In," were written by Joseph "spirit" which none but the nur hands on that feather-brained former has coloured pictures of a McCarthy, James F. Hanley and initiated may share. Among its optimistic who once wrote in a junk and of the s.s. Changte, while James Brockman. tenets are the ability to lose a guide book-"Hong Kong is per- the latter is a harmonious study Derby,"

"Doing the game with a smile and without haps at its perfection in the Win-in blue-of a blue funnel and, inset, "Cheer Up and Smile" were writ- ill-will, or to "play the game"; ter season, when it vies for its one of the company's freighters. always to uphold the honour and blue seas and sky, equable clim-

ten by Bear Brand of Swiss Milk, for Meskill. traditions of your school, and ate and cool breezes, with Cannes whom A. B. Moulder & Co., Ltd., Monaco contributed "I Feel a Cer- never "let a man down." All of or the Riviera." Up to the mo- are local agents, sends a large tear-tain Feeling Coming On" and "I'm these are fine, manly traits which ment of writing the Mediter-off calendar,

Bashful" to the tuneful score. we should like to see in every ranean blue seems to have felt A dainty picture of a "Crinoline Public Schoolboy.

Principals who sing the num- But alas, the shy of visiting the Colony, but Girl"

brings greetings of the bers include El Brendel, Marjrole path from "Prep." school to Bloomsbury has been liberal in Dollar Steamship Lines and the White, Frank Richardson, Noel Public School is too often strewn its loan of November fog, drizzle, American Mail Line with best Francis and Miriam Seegar, with snobbery and bad manners! mud, puddles and bronchial mist. wishes for 1991.

addition there is a highly trained The grocer's son is admitted The only friend we have in these

A solid and useful desk calendar, vocal chorus of fifty singers.' Wil- along with the doctor's son and dreary days is the chemist or the mounted on a wood stand has been llam. Collier, jun., also plays an the Peer's son and gains a super-

received from Messrs. Watanmal important role. ficial culture and the justification

Boolchand, dealers in silks, curios to wear School tica, badges and

and general merchandise. blazers, and to decorate his rooms with tobacco jars with the School crest inscribed thereon. He is passed out as a "gentleman," for the three generations of good stock are no longer necessary. He belongs to a "type," as unmis- takable as it is unoriginal. Ad-Chorus:- versarian knows what he is taik-: ing about, because he is one of the few who manage each genera- tion to escape being typified!

I wish I were Dean Inge, I do, I do.

Oh, To Be A Dean!

*

For I should love!

doctor.

I don't want your blue skies, Take away your blue skies -- I want no fine, sunny day, Give me back my grey skies Rainy, foggy, grey skies, Don't keep the doctor away. All I want is pills, please, Doctors, send your bills, please, I want no fine sunny day.

Give us back your grey skies Every sunny day dies, Please go away - Sunny day! (Flourish of saxaphones drowns the noise of tears gushing| down the singers' cheeks).

News in Brief.

The name of Mr. Pun In-tat has been added to the let of aufhorized architects.

The romantic story was directed by Benjamla Stoloff from

A picture calendar, with a original story by William K. Wells, charming study of Persian kittens, who also wrote the dialogue. comes from the Colonial Dis- pengary.

Messra. Dodwell & Co. - Six) calendars from Mesars. Huntley &

CHARGE FAILS.

COINS.

Palmers, the famous Reading bis- CHINESE DOCTOR AND BAD cuit manufacturers, for whose pro- ducts Mesare Dodwell and Co., are sole agents in South China.

Chung Siu-hau, a Chinese doctor,

The local agents of the Fuji appeared before Mr. Butter's yes- Paper Co., Ltd., forward a large terday at the Kowloon Magistracy tear-off calendar, with thermometer charged with possession of five attached.

counterfeit coins, with intent to. Messrs. Mackintosh and Co. send utter and (B) possession of two a neat desk calendar,

moulde for coining counterfeit As agents for the American In-money. surance Company, Messrs. J. M. Mr. C. E. L. Grist appeared for da Rocha and Co., local agents, the defence, Sergeant Meadows forward a desk calendar with a prosecuting. At Sergeant Mea- month on each page.

down's request the second charge was withdrawn.

Diaries.

"Without fear, favour or malico.”

There are several Chinese weekly journals pub-In Latin and in Greek.

to sing Papers lished in South And never know a thing with a China which attempt When Bishops chose to speak "Hate to review the politi- in the dull, deep rumbling

events of the of the ecclesiasteek.

The Asiatic Petroleum Company Although the English And in the pulpit I should shout: Union Bank, Limited, has been bound in leather, and containing It is notified that the name of forward a neat pocket book diary used by the writers is passably "And what is all the world struck of the Register of Com-very interesting information about good and the articles do on oc- casion command the interest of The Press would quote me and the forefer, every subject is ap-

reached from A bias. so that I'm sure they would burst into

world.

cal

nese is

about?"

the Peers

tears.

made out to be corrupt, eruel, The "Times" would say, hypocritical, violent and self-in manner hardly gay, seeking. In the majority of cases "The Dean is getting so modern the allegations are not based to-day." upon. the facts 'and the slightest I wish I were Dean Inge, newspaper sensation is seized I do, I do.

upon as the basis of an article, For I should love to fling although it may be denied official My gloom about the place

panies.

the company and other matters of a general nature. The management, of the Union A neat little pocket book diary, Photoplay Service, Ltd., is holding in red leather comes from the a tea party at the Ming Yuen Siemens China Company, the Far restuarant this afternoon at o'clock.

3 Eastern branch of the celebrated German firm Siemens & Halake and Siemens-Schuckertwerke.

After hearing the evidence Mr. Buttere discharged the defendant.

MARKET TRAGEDY. PRELIMINARY TRIAL OF A FOKI.

At the Central Magistracy yea terday afternoon, a Chinese was charged before Mr. E. H. Williams with the alleged murder of a fek A dividend is intended to be From Mesars. Mackinnon Mac-1

of the Wing Lee stall in the Wing declared in the matter of the Wing kenzie & Co., the local agents for her 16. The accused, it was stated, Lok Street fruit market un. Decem- Hing Bank; 158 Queen's Road the P. & O. and affiliated lines, Central adjudicated bankrupt on comes a diary and almanae for was a foki of the Sam Hing stall April 24, 1926,

1981. It contains a number of

which is next to the one at which maps showing the services main the victim was employed. ⠀ A foki, Fong Shu-huer of 24 tained by the Company, coloured a.m. Just before that a foki heard The affair happened at about 4 Hollywood Road, was yesterday re-plates of national and code flags, the victim murmer to himself that The lights go out moved to the Government Civil and a mass of most useful shipping $10 had been stolen from his jacket Overheard and the conductor's Hospital auffering from the effects and general information.

baton is silhouetted of opium poisoning. Theatre. against the foot- lights. "He has a

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ly the very next day. An exam-With the dull, deep mumbling ple of this desire to plunge head of a melancholy grace,

ng into denunciation is an ar ticle appearing in a recent issue of "China Truth" on the Moscow conspiracy trial. This paper has swallowed wholesale the absurd | story that foreign imperialists capitalists, including Sir

and

AL A

A TIRING JOB.

Watchman. According to medical evidence the victim died as the re- sult of a stab in the chest, penetrat

In the Ing the heart.

The case was adjourned."

A very noat little diary for 1931 pocket. Soon after the accused has been received from Mesara. came over from his stall and thore Henri Deterding, Mr. Winston sharp nose, like the end of a pair of 3. Parkes Street, Yaumati, was agents of Samuel Osborn & Co., which resulted in a struggle. They

Chol Wan, described as a painter Reiss, Massey & Co., Ltd., the local

a quarrel between the two Churchill, M. Briand, and Col. of scissors the pointed end. In on December 31, taken

the hack of his collar a stud Kwong Wah Hospital auffering steel workers by whom the book is

to the Ltd., the famous firma of Sheffielded away but after going a few

were separated. The Lawrence, have "plotted against Soviet Russia, in spite of the gleams. How long his hair is from the effects of having taken fasted. It is bound is brown loa hospital where he died two hours yards collapsed. He was taken to When on earth could he last have eye-wash in mistake for a medicine.ther, and contains in addition to persistent denials from these eminent men: Everybody, "China hasn't his barber, but Just A visited his barber? Perhaps he

the space for daily entries, a list of Accused made no attempt to es

Inter. plotting against Russia or China that these artistic people never Shing import and expert firm of engineering nature. Truth" would have us believe, isbarber,”. Qui Sris? Why is it:ployer, Tal Shing-sam of the Luk Information of a general and Cape and was arrested by a District

Entrusted with $5,500 by his em- the firm's oversens agencies, and That is why, presumably, Russia ahave or have their hair cut? 168, Bonham Strand, to pay various and China have been hugging give it up. Anyway, he is con- accounts, a foki is alleged to have each other in brotherly amity for ducting badly, isn't he dear? absconded with the money yester the last few years. Surely the titles of some of these irrational anything about music my

Of course, I don't know day. political journals are slightly self, but condutting's not A report has been made to the euphemistic?

music, is it? Any one can con-Folice of the loss by Col. Skinner, duct: You should see Siz Henry residing In Room 408, Peninsula introduction Wood; so graceful, so bon vivant, Hotel, of a gold ring with five The Public of the system of so thrillsome! See, he's not diamonds, of half moon shape, set persons, who called at the White

School Houses, Prefects thinking about the music. Look at in platinum, valued at £20. An- Doomed. and Houss Mas the poor orchestra trying to folfother Police report states that a ters into element- low him. In my opinion, he string of pearls, valued at $10,

House with New Year greetings. 11/16. ary schools and other free insti- shouldn't be allowed to conduct a has been found near the Kowloon lonera, pliarmaceutical chemist the Hong Kong & Whampoa Dock

-Reuter's American Service MAN tutions is bound to have a detin can orchestra what's that? Hotel Hankow Road.

The annual, ball of the Staff of trimental effect in the long run Am I enjoying the Opera? Of

| section 21 of the Stamp Ordinance, at 8.45 p.m. Ve

and solicitors certificates to Co, Ltd, is to be held at the Kow- practise for 1981, as required by Joon Docks on Friday, January 14, 1921, may be obtained from the UNSOLDA Stamp Cacoon payment of the Mr. JW. Franka is appointed Stamp Duty of 825,

Superintendent of Prisons,

The

on the Public School, which is course, dear, but I haven't beef It is notified that ambists gradually causing to become an able to see much of ik This con- barristers, dentists (whether Institution for the elite and is ductor man distracts my attend gistered as dental surgeons or oper almost to anybody who can tion. Ah, thank goodness, here's supted persons), medical pract

PRESIDENT SHAKES HANDS WITH 6,249, CALLERS.

Washington, Yesterday. The President and Mrs. Hoover yesterday shook hands with 6.429

Ten Years Ago.

From the China Mall" of 2 January 3, 1921.1

To-day's dollar is worth