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HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1931.

‘LEGACY TO A WIFE. NUN WHO SWAYED

ESTATE LEFT TO WOMAN FRIEND.

"I give and bequeath to my wife, Rose Margaret Grant, the sum of one shilling and three half-peace."

This is a passage in the will, I made in 1925 of Mr. Henry Grant, of Nimrod Road, Streatham, for- merly of Lyndhurst Avenue, Streatham Hill, a superintending clerk in the Royal Marines (retir- ed), who died on January 7, 1980.

The will was recently the sub- ject of an action, Galaski v. Grant Mr. Justice Bateson pronounced for the force and validity of the will.

Probate has been grante to Miss Johanna Betty Hedwig Galuski, of Chasefield Road, Toot-

ing, who has valued the property

at £1,667.

Mr. Grant, after giving £100 to "my dear and faithful brother," John Grant, states:-

"I give and bequeath to Miss Johanna Betty Hedwig Galuski, in recognition of the many kind- nesses extended to me by her dur- ing the years of my services in the Naval Inter-Alifed Commission of Control in Germany the whole of my residuary estate after pay- ment thereout of all my just debts, funeral, and testamentary ex- penses."

Will Tribute. The Rev. Joel Jenkins Davies, of The Vicarage, Pembroke Dock who left £3,188, gave all his pro-

AN EMPIRE.

Chinese Drama at the

Ko Shing Theatre.

THE ART OF MEI LAN FANG.

We, in the Far East, are poorly served in the matter of art. Local talent, among Europeans, is fre- quently of a very high standard- like amateur cooking-but it is, at best, a mere dabbling at the real thing and the dish must be swal- lowed with much good humour as

sauce.

The arts of India and of Japan and most of us have a passing ac are well represented in the West quaintance with the architectural

and picturial designs that there

NOVELIST DIVORCED

MRS. RAFAEL SABATINI'S FIND IN A DIARY.

Mr. Justice Bateson, in the Divorce Court last month, granted a decree nisi, with costs, to Mrs. Ruth Goad Sabatini (nee Dixon), living at Pont Street, S.W., be-

Cilure

of the misconduct of her husband, Mr. Rafael Sabatini, the novelist, with Kathleen Fellside Grandin at a Paris hotel last May.

Mr. Noel Middleton appeared for Mrs. Subalini, and the hus- band Wae represented by Mr. Clifford Mortimer. undefended.

The suit was

There is no surviving issue of the marriage which took place at St. Nicholas Church, Blundell-

sands, Lancs., on August 9, 1905.

Mr. and Mrs. Sabatini lived to-

Wales Rond, Battersea, at Fitz-

two countries produce; Chinese Rether at Laleham, at Prince of decorative art has been adapted john Avenue, Hampstead, and at

and exploited in our furniture, our dresses, and by some of our best masic of Bali are advertised the painters; the dancing and the

world over, but what of the music and the histrionic side of China?

Chu Chin Chow.

I can recall little of permanent value with the exception of Rimsky-Korsakov, and, perhaps, the inimitable hero of Chu Chin Chow, Amerlea may be better served, I don't know.

The pleasure, therefore, of wit- nessing an evening's play in an up- to-date Chinese Theatre is one that

Pont Street.

Diary Entries.

The only child was killed in a motor accident.. After the marri age Mr. and Mrs. Sabatini lived at Laleham, and latterly at Pont Street.

Mrs. Sabatini's case was that the married life was happy at first, but about the time of the motor accident in 1928, in which she was injured. he was rather in- different to her.

In 1929 she found entries in a a woman's name diary in which was meationed, and later, when

perty to his wife absolutely stat- every visitor to the Orient should she joined him in Paris, he con-

ing:

"I make the above bequest in recognition of the faithful and de- voted love and the loyal and un- failing help which my dear wife has given me throughout our mar ried life."

SALVATION ARMY CHANGES.

New Bill Promoted By General

Higgins.

give himself. It is difficult to judge a national art, that is 80 widely differing in every principal

to that we Westerners are accus-

tomed to see, and it is wise to be gin with the best possible example of it if we do not wish to mis- judge.

That is what I did when I saw. Mei Lan Fang at the Ko Shing Theatre last week.

A Tempting Temptress. The play presents the story of a nun whose ambition leads her to sway an Empire, the Empire of China, and its emperor, Huang.

Ming Mei Lan Fang plays the part of the tempting lady, ex- quisitely, coyly, gracefully and

artfully.

fessed his relation with the woman. He said he had put the woman in business in Versailles.

stayed together again, and he said Returning to England, they he had given the woman up. She found, however, that this was not true, and in January, 1930, he Anally left her.

JOFFRE'S BITTERNESS.

Foch, widow of the great Allied In spite of the efforts of Mme. commander, the memoirs of Mar- shal Joffre, when they are pub- lished, will be unexpurgated.

cation is not known, but it is be- The exact date of their publi-

will be soon, and not ten years lieved in literary circles that it after death, as at first presumed.

military and political direction of Marshal Joffre's story of the the world war is said to be very bitter towards Marshal Foch and the political chiefs who removed Marshal Joffre from his com- mand.

Madame Foch, anxious to avoid a posthumous argument by loyal supporters of the two great sel- diers, went to the widow of the victor of the Marne and suggest-

Important changes in the consti- tution of the Salvation Army are contemplated in the Bill at present before a select committee of the House of Commons which this This man knows his woman, he week heard General Higgins, who asos every feminine craft to ID- is himself the promotor of the Bill.terest, charm, and finally subdue to The measure aims at changing the the accomplishment of his purpose, constitution and arganization of not only the stage characters the Army so that in future the whom, in the course of the story, General shall be elected by the he is fated to meet, but his entire High Council instead of being audience. It is not a play in which nominated by his predecessor. It Mei Lan Fang acts a part, but Mei also provides a retiring age for a Lan Fang, with

& plot and a General, creates a company to act hundred artistes to help him, tell- as trustee of the Army's property, ing his story and providing us In the United Kingdom, and sets with a perfect picture of Chinese up a court of arbitration to deal life and custom. with any differences between the General and the principal officers. simple lollard's tale or pantomime, ters be read by an impartial per- Again, it is not a play, but ed that the objectionable chapi General Higgins, in his evidence, in which every player acta up to recalled that when he was appoint-one or other of the stereotyped son and the portions certain to ed General in February, 1929, he roles that long custom demands. ed her plea on patriotic grounds, cause trouble remyjed. She bas. made it clear that he would use As in our pantomime, there is the and argued that there was suf every endeavour to secure the love-lorn hero, the dread voiced ficient glory for each to take to changes contemplated in the Bill villain, the comic gardeners, the but stated mast emphatically that coy-cattish maid-servant and the

their tombs, he did not wish to be elected if vizler, whose best intentions al- there was to be any interference waye go wrong. The tale wanders with the General's administrative through difficulties, Beeno powers. That was still his post-acene, but turns out prettily happy tion. He was a 'Arm bellever in in the end. the present method of governing the Army. The question of degree of support which the Bill

the

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Strange Music.

after

And the music, strange to our

The reply was firm. Each page of the Joffre manuscript was read a dozen times before it the Joffre family feels that the was numbered and initialled, and

atory should be published just as the Marshal wrote it, because it is evident that had he wished the text changed he had ample time to alter it.

as artistle a representation as any- thing that the Russian Ballet has ever shown.

is receiving from the Army was ears, is still in keeping with the raised, and in reply it was stated

run of the story and the words of that while a plebiscite of all the the players. There are definite, Salvationists was regarded as im-well-known airs, the treatment of possible, General Higgins had sent which establishes the capability of a letter to all the officers asking the artist; every one present knows their attitude to the Bill, and

them by heart, and the words are

Mei Lan Fang will be back in hardly bothered about, bat voice Hong Kong about May 23, and it production is all important and, will be well worth anybody's time: well done, is heartily applauded. to study this sample of Chinese art The music, too, is charming and carry away with them a gem enough.

of great beauty. But the-nun in her bath, per- Have I said that Mei Lan Fang farming her waterless ablutions Is a man? He is, but he acts the with the help of a strip of gauze, intriguing woman to perfection, and the amazing terpsichorean and his deception is ha art.c ability of Mel Lan Fang, gives us | Contributeda z

pledging that its opponents would not be victimised. 01 4,985 replies received only 80 opposed the Bill.

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