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RETIREMENT OF A FAMOUS CLOWN.

Stories of the Great Grock.

"TIRED OF FAME."

Grock, most famous of all

"I had another pleasant experi- WOMEN'S GAOL LIKE a table and chair, a wash basin

my

way

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with hot and cold water, a lava- tory, shelf and clothes hanger. The walls are of buff terra cotta and the floors of a rubber sub- stance. The doors are of wood.

Little has been done to guard against the escape of a prisoner, but possibly the officials reason- ed; why should anyone want to vice built into the structure is escape? The one protective de- not to prevent escape, but to pre aricles in or out of the window panels.

ence last September when J. ap. peared before the King of Italy at San Rossore, on the Prince of Pier- mont's birthday. We put up quite a big theatre for this occasion, and the performance took place before the royal family and the entire . Court. They applauded very spon- taneously and heartily. When the Queen saw me after the perfor clowns,asnce, without any paint on

The jail house blues have lost She could their moan and the lady, vags Race Course, Hong Kong Club, and Indian Ioan of FL110,000,000 (hun-is tired of making the world laugh face, she was astounded.

dred million guilders D.E.I. Cy.) at his drolleries and anties, and is hardly believe that the ordinary. along Broadway, New York, are vent the passing of passages or Causeway Bay Stables.

retiring to a quiet home at Sai koking civilian before her

singing "Happy Days," for the Entries CLOSE at 12 o'clock bearing interest at the rate of

At last she said: home town women's prison has Soon an THURSDAY, 28th May,44% pa. is being issued by the Remo, where he has bought a small rock the clown.

Government of the Dutch East estate, writes a special correspon-I am very glad to see you, Mr. gone ritzy.

There Grock. because I have heard

is a new architectural Indies through the intermediary of dent in the Sunday Observer.

sight in Greenwich Village that the Nederlandsche Handel-Mant-

might have been built as a set schappij at Batavis at the price of 97%.

ting for "the bird in the gilded cage," and an inspection of the almost completed "women's house of detention" revealed that it would be far sweeter, to live in this modern "jail" than to work and pine away in a boarding house.

Its terraced brown brick walls are ornamented in the Manhattan manner and there is nothing about them to suggest the damp gloom of prison walls. In fact,

Hong Kong, 23rd May, 1931.

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NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS,

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

it? are tired

born.

his sons

80

Segregate Prisoners. There is a true caste system

in this jail house, for the inmates will be segregated to prevent the contact of one type of transgres sor with another. To achieve such separation, each prison floor is divided into four wings. There are two recreation and two

mess hails on each floor, and the old and young lawbreakers will be kept as far apart as possible.

The "material witness" ward has real hotel conveniences, but of the women's detention house on the whole the detained wit-

In an interview he confessed him much about you, and I can assure self tired alike of fame, applause, you that I was not at all disappoint- and wealth, and above all of travell- ed, and yet from continent to continent. ing from country 10 country and "The King asked me where I was I replied that I was Swiss, "Really and truly, sans blague, I and, when I mentioned my native am tired. Applause no longer town, he said he knew the district seems to me the celestial music it very well. We conversed as famili- once was to my ears, and when arly as if we were old friends. Sub- appear in the evening before my sequently the King made me à com- cireas or music-hall spectators, my mander of an Italian Order. principal feeling is fatigue and not "When I was last in Milan, it delight. In vain is the house full, happened that Mussolini's sons were in vain does the manager team with also there. I was performing at a pleasure; success has lost its savour music-hal, but the Duce does not for me. What tires me more than allow

to frequent such the jail looks like a high-dessnesses fare little better than the anything is travel.

more permanent inmates. Strange, isn't places of entertainment. They acapartment house and, instead of

There is a library of 5,000 Very few people ingthis work cordingly telegraphed to him and having a depressing effect on

of travel, which gives neked for apecial permission, which land values in the neighbourhood, and for recreation the inmates books for the studious prisoners them on only change of milieu and he gave, and, escorted by a general, it has sent them soaring. It is have, besides the floor halls, a Jimale but new sensations, inter- they came to a matinee.

After the that kind of a prison. srilag acquaintances, and a different chew they came

large roof garden. High above to my dressing-

New Style l'enology. lije.

the street, handball, tennis and room and asked for a photopraph. The new prison was designed even miniature golf will be play- "This is very true about other of course, I gave them ane, and they to house the city's waywarded by the girls who are serving peuple, but I have been travelling came back again for the evening women and is the result of as possibly their twenty-fifth over the face of the globe for more performance.

That is what I cali much thought on new-style peuo- thirtieth hitch in the "work- than thirty years, from one music success.

logy or, as it is called in some house." nall or circus to another. I know

"I Am Tired_Of_It__A{"__ quarters, criminal coddling - NS. them all, as 1 have unfortunately

"And yet, although my life has the New York department of cor- heen in every country. 1 know the been a series of successes, although rection and a couple of high- lessces, the stage managers, the 1 have many decorations, although powered architects could bring sebretaries, and the door-keepers of i am an honorary LL.D. of Budapest to bear. the music-hull in about citits, and i rarely see a new face Italy, although I have met most of a hundred University and a commendatore in among my fellow actors. Jones I knew in Berlin, Brown and Robin applauded by the people of every the great men of our time, and been

expected to register there for The 10,000 or more newcomers

find something more than the varying intervals this season will

or

Payment-for-Work. Concerning the "workhouse" features of the institution- have been changes from the old routine. Inmates will do sewing ment of education instructors, under the supervision of, depart The garments made will be sold

that the FIFTY-EIGHTH son were at the same show in New country, I am tired of it all, and I comfort of home. There will be and the money turned over to the

port of the

By Order of the Board,

PAUL LAUDEK,

General Manager. Hong Kong, 2nd May, 1931.

or

My Then

makers.

There is an extensive hospital department in the prison, and what is more, a staff of psycholo- well as physicians to give pills. gista to give mental comfort as

in the country, and is expected to It is the first prison of its kind bring untroubled sleep to many welfare workers.

none of the drab grey uniforms but instead, something of bright coloured prints for week days. sisters of the wayward circle will on Sunday morning, the change to prouder garments.

There was dungeon gloom in the old pile of stone that occupied the site, and when one, was put away for, ninety days, there was no discounting the fact that a jail sentence had been served.

Ten bushels of reward wheat Two women often shared the have been sent to a farmer in the same narrow cell. In the new Argentine, the order having been they filled by W. H. Gibeon, superinten- "jail" there are no cells - call them roome — and rightly, dent of the Dominion Experimen-

tal Farm at Indian Head, too.

grain is intended for seed purposes in connection with the forthcom. ing World's Grain Exhibition and Conference in Regina in the Sum-

this Diploma)vited to attend and participate in

any discussion which may ensue.

AND NOTICE is hereby given that an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Voting Members of

so on; I know their the Hong Kong Jockey Club will ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING Yar

have done with it. I have bought be held at the Club House on the the Society will be held at the fathers and the colour of their chil

a small estate with a pretty house 27th day of May, 1931, immediate-HEAD OFFICE. Union Building, dren's hair.

near San Remo, and that is where I Hong Kong, on FRIDAY, 29th MAY, 1931, at 11 o'clock a.m., for the frontier stations, and I can't say daughter is an excellent pianist (she

"I know the Customs officers at hope to enjoy family life. promptly printed.-"China" Mail" of the Voting Members when the

the purpose of receiving the Re-I like them any better than I did at took a first prize at the Conserva- Ofee, No. 3A, Wyndham St.

Tele-subjoined resolution will be pro-

Directors and the first, though I have had plenty of posed:- phene 20022.

That Article 6 of the Articles Statements of Account to 31st De-time to get aerustumed to their in- toire) and will be a first-rate masi- cian. It is time for the clown to As soon as I see disappear. of Association of the Club bember, 1930, and of declaring discreet ways.

them. I turn my back on them and altered by deleting therefrom Dividends, etc.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the leave it to my wife to make them'

"Yes, the clown will vanish, but the words "Ordicary Membere

nat Mr. Grock. Money no longer may be unlimited in number" Society will be CLOSED

from understand that I do not carry any tempts me, but I have always loved 11th MAY to 29th MAY, Bothammunition or previous stones and substituting therefor the

contraband stuff in my car.

art.

I made a film called 'Grock' in words "The number of Ordin-Days inclusive.

Berlin.

It is an oplande in my "Not a Smuggler!"

j life.

It is a good film. which cost "Once upon a time, when I was me £40,000. I wrote the scenario still an optimist, I thought Customs, myself, not to save money, but be- men could understand. I used to cause the fifty or so scenarios 1

The rooms are about the size try to reason with them.

The only read were all artificial and were of a bedroom in a first-class result was to make them turn every-"just so many variations on the rooming-house, and each has a thing upside down, rap on my suit-, 'Pagliace theme. I wanted a bit window looking out on the street. to make sure they had no of life, and so I wrote it myself. The window has panes instead of double sides or false bottoms, look, We built quite a theatre in the bars, and through its tanslucent Inside the radiators, and pay special studio, Unprecedented. i put all glass one may look out, but not attention to the tyres. Sometimes my heart into it. Also without in. The windows are immovable, I burst out with: 'Can't you under- precedent, or nearly, Grock's heart. but there is a panel twelve inches square which may be opened by purpose of receiving a Report of that the SIXTY-SECOND smuggler? to which they replied laugh! Why?

the "roomer" for air. the proceedings at the above men- ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING that they didn't care who 1 was, weep."

Inside is a bed, with a mattress, tioned meeting and of confirming of the Company will be held at its that it had nothing to do with them, if thought fit na a Special Resolu- HEAD OFFICE, Union Building, and that their business was to con tion the above mentioned Rosolu- Hong Kong, on FRIDAY, 29th fiscate anything contraband. I

MAY, 1931, at 11.15 .m., for could do nothing but stump the purpose of receiving the Re-fume until they

let me through port of the Directors and the without finding anything dutiable.' Statements of Account to 31st De They were idiots! They poked! cember, 1930, and of declaring their noses into everything and took Dividenda, etc.

no notice of a small box I left on the The TRANSFER BOOKS of the seat, in full view, where they could Company will be CLOSED from get at it very easily. It contain- 11th MAY to 29th MAY, Bothed foreign cigars--a hundred Days Inclusive.

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"Now I am tired of all this kind: of thing. Why? I am not old. Perhape it is because I began my wanderings too soon, at the age of twelve. Perhaps it is because I have been to too many countries and performed before too many people. I have an interesting record. have appeared three times before King George-onee at Buckingham Palace during the War. Mr. Lloyd George congratulated me several times. His remarks were not parti- TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN cularly amusing; he said the same that the SIXTY-FIFTH thing every time, in the same words: ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING 'M. Grock, you are really very

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of the Company will be held at its clever! You were splendid! Lord HEAD OFFICE, Union Building, Balfour's compliments were equally on FRIDAY, 29th lacking in variety. 'It is a real Hong Kong, MAY, 1991, at 11.20 a.m., for pleasure to see you, Mr. Grock,' he the purpose of receiving the Re-used to say, 'you a genuine port of the Directors and the artiste." Statements of Account to 31st De-) "The first time you hear this kind cember, 1930, and of declaring of thing you like it. The second Dividends, etc,

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are

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The TRANSFER BOOKS of the time it begins to bore you. Company will be CLOSED from 11th MAY to 29th MAY, Both Days inclusive.

By Order of the Board,

PAUL LAUDER,

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AH KWAI

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"Sometimes, however, I experl- ence great delight. It happened to me a few months ago in Berlin. 1 was making a film in a studio when Countess Bethlen, wife of the Hun- to see me. garian Premier, came In former times I was a tutor to her husband's cousins and thus became acquainted with the whole family. All my pupils are dead, but their The people have not forgotten me, Countess spoke to me as if I were a relative, and told me that Pista (a familiar version of Stephen), ber husband, would have very much Ilked to see me, but that he had not a minute to spare in Berlin, and that he would have to postpone it until next time I came to Budapest." I certainly should like to meet Pista, the cousin of my former pupils, who has become Prime Minister, but has not forgotten his old friend the clown.

I

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