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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1931.

BUSINESS DIRECTORY

DRAWNWORK & EMBROIDERIES

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Established 1910. MANUFACTURERS OF Swatow Drawn Work

AND

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ANNOUNCE GRAND

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HEAD OFFICE:~~6 Pedder St. Opposite Hong Kong Hotel 'Phone 23303.

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SUITINGS.

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Tel. 21417.

DENTISTS.

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Central. Tel. 21255.

TANG YUK, DENTIST

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FRUITS.

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Pearmain Apples

Sunkist Oranges Sunkist Grapefruits Phillip Cling Peaches

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SPORTING GOODS

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PHOTO - SUPPLIES

Kodaks and Cameras. Films, Plates and Papers, etc.. Developing, Printing and.

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LITERATURE

BOOKS for All

THE CHINA MAIL.

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MUSIC DRAMA FILMS.

GIPSY ORCHESTRA.

Alfred Rode's Tziganes at the Kit-Cat.

"BLUE DANUBE."

Lord Love-n-Duck.

“JIMMY" GLOVER" Famous Conductor and Bohemian Dead.

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also at various times on the staff

by day.'

After that he wont to Paria to of several papers and periodicals,

study music and the violin. On and wrote books. returning to London he chose the More than once "Jimmy" crossed stage as a career, and a short on-awords with Sir Thomas Beecham, woman atoutly championing the cause of necromancer and a troupe of brass bands. acrobáts encouraged him to have his cards printed as "Musical

Kagment as planist to a

director" 1.

He was the life and soul of a band of Bohemians whose sayings and doings were wittily portrayed in hie Book, published in 1911, "Jimmy

J. C. Squire is now the author of a musical comedy which has been accepted for production in London.

A Crowded 'Life. Its title is "Lord Love-a- duck," and

Soon he became musical director Glover, Hls. Book." the music is by Dennis Arundell, Mr. James M. ("Jimmy") Glover,

In another of his books, "Hims who was in the cast of "Tantivy the famous conductor, died early on at the old Olymple, in Wych Street, London, Sept. 8.

| Towers," and has superintended September, 8 in Hastings at the where he produced a first piece Ancient and Modern," he advised sundry amateur productions at hotel where he had occupied a fat operetta of his own, entitled, "Ten young men to avoid "middle-class Eighteen gipsy, musicians, led by

регволь, women who bet, night Cambridge.

for some years.

He was 70 years Minutes for Refreshment." Jan Argentinian, have made them-

of age.

It did not take him long to find clubs and standing for Parliament." Realism on the Stage,

At the age | Mr. Glover was Mayor of Bexhill selves famous within six months.

Death was due to pneumonia,his" feet in London. There is no revolving stage at which had developed rapidly. His of 24 he became musical director in 1906-7, and he had also bean a For it was not above six months the Haymarket, nor is there likely brother and sister were present at at the old Empire in Leicester member of Hastings Town Council. aro that Alfred Rode formed his to be one. But the scene on board the end.

Square-the meeting pince of the He first want to Bexhill about 80 General Literature

years ago as musical director of the Tzigane Band.

they liner in the Red Sea, which is to Since then

"Jimmy" Glover was one of the "bloods" of those days. Presentation Books

bo fi feature of "Take

After several other appointments, Kursaal. Two best-known Bohemian figures of his Children's Booka a Speciality.

have triumphed on the West-End

from One" (incidentally, the liner generation, and for many years Drury Lane next, claimed him, and THE BOOK & BIBLE DEPOT variety stage and at a Royal Com catches fire), will be extremely was conductor of the Drury Lane he remained there for 30 years.

That occupied only part of his orchestra.

He has himself told that before time-and the rest was very full. windows, and a huge awning covers he was 21 he had spent two three. He composed muate, wrote about it,

Marjorie Gateson, the mother in it; a whistle of gargantuan size is year consecutive apprenticeships-criticised it, arranged it; in fact, "Street Scene" on Broadway, has to add to the realism.

perfection of been given a long-term contract by one us a choirboy by night, and gave himself to the

He was Paramount. the other as a chemist's apprentice the musle in the theatre.

Bibles, Pocket Testaments, Prayer Books and Stationery.

Wyndham Street. Next to King's Theatre.

Agenta for

British & Foreign Bible Society The Religious Tract Society and The League of Nations' Society.

GENERAL PROVIDERS.

Just

arrived

A Fine

Selection

of

mand performance.

Now, in cabaret, the gipsies and their fender promise to become even more popular. Their appearance last night at the Kit-Cat, where they will play for a season, was an overwhelming success."

realistic. The fore part of the deck is alsown, with the saloon

One can only be realistic with stage ships by showing a part of them. Directly the whole ship is soen, the thing, however well done. As an orchestrá pure and simple becomes ludicrous. I remember Alfred Rode's Tziganes are in one of the last dramas Arthur +Collins produced the hero and heroine clung together on the

of a wrecked steam

superb. They play ay tunes with a swing, a rhythm, a deck fery perfection that makes the yacht-a yacht which was correct detail. Unfortunately blood. tingle. They play senti-'in every

skill which the hero and heroine, as they clung. mental ones with a

were about as tall as the funnel. makes evident the fact that each Imember of the band has dedicated |

·GENTLEMEN'S AUTUMN HATS, half a lifetime to the mastery of

his instrument.

We have also a very fin range of TIES in all the latest new Autumn colours

and pullerns.

WE SOLICIT A TRIAL,

I has, for example, taken the tall Roumanian gipsy who plays the Pan pipes 20 years to achieve the sweet, [sure notes which delighted the Kit-

THE CENTRAL CO. Cal patrons last night.

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LADIES' AND GENTLEMEN'S HAIR DRESSING SALOON.

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OPTICIANS.

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'Phone 22232.

53, Queen's Road Central.

SHOES.

Black

Showmanship.

HONG KONG MARKET

APPROXIMATE RETAIL

Butcher Meat.

Beef Sirloin ...

牛熊耙

Too Many Ships.

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Prime Cut

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Even issuing tions,

Wagner, though he was direc- impossible stage

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had the sense to de- and only a portion of the ship in he was a young man, and had not the first act of "Tristan." When

learned sense in this respect, he demanded more than one ship. "swinging at anchor," in "The Fly- ing Dutchman"-and the effect is always ludicrous.

Steak Sirloin Sausages

Bullock's Brains

Fowls. Euinan Geoss

Pigeons, Canton

Holbow

Turkeys, Cock Turkeys, Hen

His second wife, Kathleen, daugh- ter of Mrs. Gratz Collins, of Mon- treal, died two year ago.

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But if you gather from the fore- The cinema will undoubtedly going that Alfred Rode and his rome to the rescue of the theatre' before long In the matter of ships Tziganes are purely and simply an and a host of other things; Indeed, orchestry, you haven't as the talkie I am surprised that some characters say, heard the half of alliance was not formed long ago.

More Chelsen Follies. Archibald de Bear tells me that with musical skill to make this he has prepared an entirely new version of "Chelsea Follies," which band's performance a complete en-is to be produced in London in tertainment in itself.

November or December.

it.

Style and showmanship combine

Their gipsy clothes please the

eye.

Rode himself, handsome as;

Henry the Ninth. Mireille Perrey, the

young

jany film hero, conducts them with, French actress who made a hit at for baton, the bow of his own violin, the Hippodrome in "Sons of Guns,"

on which at appropriate moments

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is to be the leading lady in "Henry the Ninth," the farce by Lauri the plays a dramatic bar or two. Wylie, with which the long-closed Pork Chop Now and then the bandsmen add Prince's Theatre will shortly open.. their voices to the strumming of She will, of course, act in English, in which she has, I hear, become the guitars, the tinkle of the cym-

thoroughly proficient since her, last balum, the throb of the violins and visit. 'cellos.

Frank Vosper. Lesile Perrin, The band is at its splendid best, I and A. Bromley Davenport have would say, in the "Blue Danubenow been added to the cast of Waltz," introduced by a fow "Elizabeth

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of England," shortly Sucking Pigs, to order rhetorical notes from the leader's due at the Cambridge Theatre. fiddle, London is never likely to

A Fine British Baritone. hear a finer performance of this It says much for the prospects of the forthcoming season at Covent stirring music.

a baritone na are, in fact, one of the most strik-ny ing cabaret attractions the West Arthur Fear, who sang a long and Barbel scene from "The Flying Bream dißeult End has known,

Dutchman" at the Queen's Hall, French, Belgian, Hungarian, Rus-London, on September 7. sian and Roumanian gipsies are.

About a couple of bars proved too among them, but they play together low for him, but the power and Carp with an enthusiasm and a fresh-quality of the voice ness which should make Rode and superb, his showmen-Tziganes a draw at

This "From." programme was Kit-Cat for a long time.--full of Wagnerian titbits, Including Evening Standard.

the Bridal March from Lohengrin, ¡Siegfried's Journey, and

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THEATRE, NOTES.

Black ar Brow [By Philip Page in Evening Standard.]

Boots from $8.00. Children's Boots ar Shoes from $2.00.

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Indication points to a HEAVY DEMAND

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THIS SEASON,

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it is a mistake to give away in ad-Bubb, J. Burbeck, A. Bandman, N. Mullet vance situations and effects which Brandel, might, perhaps, surprise the first- {night audience..

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