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The lowest open air temperaturo yesterday was 41 degrees. The humidity was 79 at 10 a.m. and 78 at 4 p.m.
A girl Li Chuen (16), residing at 72 Ma Tau Wel Road, Kowloon City, was conveyed to the Kowloon Hospital yesterday suffering from Injuries to her head and hands, re- celved as the result of a dynamite blast at the Lee San quarry, Hok-on Kok, where she was employed.
· Suffering from the effects of oplum poisoning. Wong Yue-ku (29), of 55 High Street, was taken to the Government Civil Hospital yesterday by her husband. The oplum is alleged to have been self administered.
| ROUND THE CINEMAS
"MADAM SATAN" --AN AMUSING FARCE.
INTRIGUING SITUATIONS.
MONDAY, MARCH 23, 1931.
RADIO
TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME.
The following programme will be broadcast to-day from the Hong Kong Broadcasting Statio Z.B.W. on a wavelength of 855 metres.
FOR TOURISTS.
FINE DISPLAY FOR COLUMBUS PASSENGERS.
BLACKWOOD . FURNITURE,
"Columbus" tourists, welcomet To help you get the most out of your comparatively short stay here, ad- allow us to give you a little vice. Don't miss a visit to tho
5-7 p.m.-Chinese Programme. 7-10.30 p.m. European Pro-Sincere Co., Ltd., If you want to see grantme of Columbia Records kindly something really worth while. This supplied by Messrs. Anderson is the.emporium which stocks every- Music Co.
thing, from a packet of pins to ex- quisite Blackwood furniture, and, what is more, being a one price store (the value of everything hero compares favourably with prices
7 p.m.-Stock Qutations. 7,2-7,29 p.m.--Orchestral.
Salut D'Amour (Elgar),
Albert Sandler and His Orchestra charged in other places), saves you
6385.
time bargaining, which is "olo
L'Estudiantina (Waldteufel),
Jacques Jacob's Ensemble, 0685. Custom" and fast disappearing in Light Cavalry Overture (Suppe), the local Chinese shops.
Court Symphony Orchestra, DX42.
visit to this Iale of Fifth Symphony (Blahler),
Fragrant Streams cannot be com The Amsterdam Concert Orchestra,plete unless you see the special dis-
L1703.
7.29-7.47 p.m.-Organ Solos. Classica Selections (Ewing),
A highly amusing, but very im-Bailad probable farce; with a good slice of action, is an adequate summing up of M.G.M.'s spectacular picture, "Madam Satan", now showing in the Queen's Theatre.
Memories (Arr. Maclean),
Quentin 3. Maclean, 1225.
Your
play which Sincere's, the first Chin- ese-run department store in this part of the world, has arranged for you.
The special tourists' display will be found on the ground floor to the left of the main entrance. It la
Quentin M. Maclean, DX135. 7.47-8.37 p.m.-Concert Items.
pam Song-My Dearest Heart (Surrivan), Song-A Summer Night (Thomas),
Doris Vane (Soprano), DX71, called the "Tourists' Souvenir De- Violin. Solo- Hungarian Dance In Dpartment." The pretty little struc-
Minor (Brahms-Joachin),
ture in which the departmont is Violin Solo-Cavatina (Raff),
housed is called a "pai-lau" by the Arthur Catterall, 9439. Vocal Dact-The Battle Eve (Southey Chinese. It is a wonderful example, in miniature, of the quaint, pic- Vocal Duet-Excelsior (Longfellow turesque Chinese architecture, ro-
and Balfe),
splendent with its many bright- Hubert Eisdell and Norman Allin, coloured scheme of decoration.
and Bonheur),
.
DX79.
Full of intriguing situations, in which Kay Johnson, Reginald Denny, Lillian Roth, and Roland Young take the leading parts, the picture is a riot of laughs for the first half hour. In spite of the peculiar plot, there is not a touch. of vulgarity in any part. kay
Inside this "pal-lau" is a very Johnson as Angela Brooks, the wife Pianoforte Solo-Shepherd's Hoy
(Grainger),
choice and splendid array of China of Bob Brooks (Reginald Denny) Pianoforte-Country Dances
waro, which includes all the various believes in making the house- (Grainger), hold perfect and attending to tha
Percy Grainger, D16644. arts and crafts which are peculiar niceties of life, Bob, on the other Sorg-Kashmiri Song (Woodforde-to the Chinese and cannot be
"Finden),
equalled by the craftsmen of any hand, belleves in "more warmth | Song-Till 1 Wake (Woodforde-other country. and less efficiency" and, owing to Finden), his wife's cold temperament, Onds the necessary "warmth" in the por- son of Trixie (Lillian Roth),
Determined not to lose her hus and, to a com- band, Angela becomes "Madam parative degree, to the Satan," but not before many humor- Chinese of the Straits Settle-ous situations have arisen. As
Madam Satan, Angela attends ments. It has been proven masked ball held in a Zeppelin. It
community. This is applicable not alone to the Chinese of this Colony, but to the Chinese of Kwangtung
B
in years gone by that when every-is here that the action commences. thing is lovely" in the Canton Supporting the picture is
Hearst Newsreel. |trade garden, everything assumes a roseate hue in the tradal întér- course between Hong Kong and Kwangtung.
w
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Scenes from the Classics. Edgar Coyle (Baritone), 1065.
Foremost in the display is the Violin Salo-Caprice Viennois (Kreis-
lacquer ware from Foochow, the Violin Solo-Ave Maria (Schubert-heme of this craft. Particularly
N
ler),
| beautiful examples are beautiful lacquer pieces specially designed to hang on the wall which cannot Local|full to arrest attention.
Wilhelm),
Naoum Blinder, DX7. 8.37-9.15 p.m.-Band Music. 9 p.m.-Weather Report, Time, Etc.
Marche Lorraine (Ganna), Belphegor (Brepasant),
The Regimental Band Of H.M. Grenadier Guards, 5173. Villanelle (Acqua arr. Winterbottom), Marche Militaire (Schubert-Godfrey),
The Regimental Band Of H.M. Grenadier Guards, 0919. Classical Memories (Arr. Ewing),
Debroy Somers Band, 9901. Paul Rubens Memories (Rubens),
Debroy Somers' Band, 1882. 9.15-9.30 p.m.--Octets.
CYMBALS:---
"THE LOVE DOCTOR.”
"The Boomerang" ́as a stage Iday had ก pronounced success. Within recent months Cana-Then it was forgotten for a while. dian and United Kingdom trade But Richard Dix discovered it three Ivan Caryll Memories (Caryll), missions have visited Hong Kong years ago and wanted to do "The The Boomerang" into a movie. and Canton and explored every fulfilment of this wish came with Minuet In D (Mozart-Willoughby), possible avenue for expanding his assignment to
the Paramount Minuet Sicilienne (Squire & Hart),
J. H. Squire Celest Octel, DB75. Sino-British commerce. Doubt picture, "The Love Doctor," which Moonbeams and Shadows (Squire), less the inspiration and the is the screen adaptation of the Melody (Dawes),
J. H. Squire Celest Octet, 5639. message of such missions has stage play and now showing in the
9.30-10.15. From The Studio, Central Theatre. not been without an influence on The story is that of a young Professor Alois Barna (Cymbalist) the astute Chinese authorities in doctor who is wise in the ways of and Miss L. Pecker (Pianist). Canton. Hence the invitation to love, shies at all marriageable maidens and is madly loved by two the commercial mission from
of them. Enter a patient with a Hong Kong to proceed to Canton strange malady known as love. and study conditions on the spot The doctor bundles the patient off with a view to investing in indus- to the country with a nurse who loves the doctor. A young society tries in Kwangtung. Be the mis-debutante is now left with a clear sion fruitful or barren of concrete field for the doctor's heart. results, the opportunity for per- rules of love for his patients. The doctor lays down his three sonal intercourse and consultation First, if you fall in love any 50, Hong Kong, Monday, March 23, 1931. between the Chinese mercantile If you like, but never let the loved representatives of Hong Kong one be quite sure you mean it. Be Second, make yourself scarce. and the Governmental and mer as devoted as you like but don't al- PIANO: TRADE WITH CANTON. cantile representatives of Canton ways be on hand.
Selected Pieces. Third, try to cannot bút be of intrinsic value make the loved one jealous. 10.15-10.30 p.m.-Operatic.
promptly visits his
P. P. C.
Mr. & Mrs. J. Sanderson Smith. Station Hotel.
ho Then
1. Traviata (Verdi).
2. Cavalleria Eusticana (Verdi). 3. Symphony No. 5. (Brahms).
PIANO
4. A Selected Ploce.
5. Cymbal Serenade (Barna). 0. Mazurka (Tschaikowsky). 7. Cymbal Symphony (Dvorak). PIANO:-
8. A Selected Plece, Xylophone Metalphone and Glass.
9. Marche William Tell (Rossini), 10. Theme Song of "Rio Rita." 11. Dance (Grieg)- 12. Gallop.
(Delibes),
Mlle Feraldi (Soprano), D1649.
arz. Tavan).
New Queen's Hall Light Orch.
8304.
Carlo Morelli (Baritone), LB2, 10.30 p.m. Close Down. LESSON SERMON.
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, HONG KONG.
It is
Chinese Arts and Crafts, While you are in this store, make it a point to go to the fourth floor and inspect their fine array of ready made blackwood furniture, a, mistaken, idea with Westerners that everything Chinese must be at least a bundred years old to be really good-in fact, that Chinese arts and crafts are dead if not
A actually buried!
visit to Sincere's furniture department will convince you of the fallacy of this bellof. Chinese arts and crafts have advanced with the times, and the modern designs and carvings in blackwood furniture compare well with those of the old school, and there are many who think that Tho they are even more artistic. well spoken, courteous assistants at Sincere's will be glad to give vist tors any information which they may require, so don't hesitate to ask- them questions about how black wood is carved and polished, and lacquer ware made, only to men- tlon two handicrafta..
Chiness Food.
For the benefit of those who wish to taste Chinese food, Sincere's have arranged special menus which will be served in their roof garden restaurant, Buy a pair of ivory chopsticks and a pretty porcelain bowl from the souvenir department, and these, together. with the menu card, will serve as pleasant reminders for years to come of your visit to Hong Kong.
OBSTRUCTION OF CEMENT BAGS AND SAND.
CONTRACTORS. FINED.
No disconcerting or pessimistic no less to this Colony than to patient, feels himself falling for the Song - Lakme Thou White' One view may be taken of the objec- Kwangtung. A personal inter-nurse and leaves to go back to town tive of the commercial mission view is worth more than tons of and forget all about it. But on the Orchestral - Alda Selections (Verdi | MENACE TO MOTORS. invited by Canton from Hong correspondence in clearing the way back the canoe tips over and the doctor becomes Involved in an Kong to study conditions with a mist of misunderstanding and affair that keeps him from going gong-Othello-Il Sogna (Verdi), view to encouraging Hong Kong removing the barriers of mis- back to town. and Straits Settlements mer- trust. It is to Hong Kong's ad- chants to invest in industries in vantage to encourage by every Canton. A commercial entente means possible the trade between cordiale between the British Hong Kong and Kwangtung and Colonies and Kwangtung is most the trade between the Straits desirable from many angles. Any Settlements and Kwangtung. Ng Shu-fook (16), a student of step taken in this direction, direct Our enviable position as an entre King's College, was this morning or indirect, cannot but reflect to pot is a permanent asset that charged before Mr. W. Schofield In this Central Magistracy with hav- the ultimate advantage of Hong should be exploited to the uttering played football in Lun Fat Kong as an entrepot. It is true most exploited, of course, in Street, on Saturday night. He that the mainland opposite our the merely commercial sense and denied the offence,
LAUGHED AT P.C.
STUDENT'S RESPONSE. TO A WARNING.
defendant
22.
In the Central Police Court this morning before Mr. W. Schofield, two Chinese contractors, Kun Kwan and Lo Fo, were charged with having caused obstruction in Tin Lok Lano and Luard Road. respectively, with cement bags and "Matter" was the subject of the sand. Both pleaded guilty. Lesson-Sermon in all Churches of Prosecuting, Sergt. Goldsmith Christ, Scientist, on Sunday, Marcb said that 36 bags of cement were placed in Tin Lok Lane, at the island-Kowloon and tho New not with any idea of taking all when he warned
A Chinese constable sald that The Golden Text was:-"I am the south end on Morrison Hull Road, a blind corner. Territories--offers immense ad- and conceding nothing. A com- against playing football in the glory will I not give to another, This
Lord: that is my name; and my where there was
was aggravating, as thera vantages for the creation and ex-mercial rapprochement, to be street the latter laughed at him. neither my praise to graven as a very grave danger of a pansion of secondary industries, genuine, must create complete The Magistrate agreed with the
motor collision. A ding, of^$20 was Imposed.KARTUN M with the assurance of permanent satisfaction in the minds and Constable that an early warning images." (Isaiah, 42; 8). **
Among the citations which com-
In the second case, Sergt. Gold- protection under the British flag. hearts of both parties to it; leav To Inspector McClelland, his prised the Lesson-Sermon was the smith stated that defendant o64 That in itself need not impel using no room for evasion or equi. Worship: said that the constable following from the Bible: Love cupled half of Luard Rond with to take the narrow and selfish vocation: On this basis rests the arrested defendant probably be not the world, neither the things sand, His Worship imposed a fina
of B16. view of seeking to concentrate best hope for &
ing
love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof but he that doeth the vill of God abideth for ever." 1 John, 2; 15, 17.)
The Lesson-Sermon also included A highly successful dance was Police Court this morning to the the following passage from the Christian Science textbook, "Selence given in the Garrison Lecture Hall larceny: of a wooden table top and Health with Key to the Scrip on Saturday night by the Chief Cheung Tai was sent to jail for Petty Officers of HMS. Cumber fourteen days. The table-top was tures, by Mary Baker Eddy The
Was sufficient,
only on industry within our own the China the success of cause he had laughed at the warn- that are in the world. If any man
News in Brief.
commercial mission borders. If the Chinese capital-from Hong Kong to Canton. ists of Hong Kong and the Straits Settlements are sufficiently Im- pressed by the openings offered to them in Kwargtung, there seems no good reason why they should not respond in a very
Amander. A we
on the eve of the
Year trade urošu
lles
de prosperl
#ection
Lang
Defendant was discharged with a-cautions are
BUS OPTIMISTIC THIEF.
Pleading "gulty" in the Kowloon
Ten Years Ago.
--[from the "Ching_M«ll? of
Biarch 28, 1921.)
To-day a dollar is worth 2/47%.
A pretty Chinese wedding was
land. Among the 250 guests were the property of a stall hawker at so-called pleasures and pains of celebrated in St Paul's Church on Captain LF Potter and Col, ELA No. 8, Sal Kung Road, and was of matter perish, and they must Monday afternoon, when Dr. Chair "Cumberland Bevellers' considerable proportions How the go out under the blase of Truth, Wai-cheung, local, medical practi the mitic and the rider
to get away with spiritual sense, and the actuality of loner, recently-graduated from the in the hands of Yeomanjit And a mystery, since it took being Mortal belief must lose all Hong Kong Univeralty was married awas it two fokis to carry It Into Court as satisfaction in error, and, sin in to Ms Kwok Yee-aing, teacher
order to part with them (p. 298) of the St Pauld Girls School, *evidences:
pro
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