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The China Mail

Hong Kong, Monday, Dec. 7, 1931.

Radio Programmes.

From Other Pens.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1931.

H.M.S. Berwick loft harbour on

Saturday. This

morning 3.S. Hermes and H.M.S. Medway (with

wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwnx" | submarines) also left for firing

Payment in Kind.

If American colleges and other institutions continue to accept agri-i cultural produce in place of money fees they may find themselves al-

practice outside.

Personal Pars.

Mr. William Beveridge, of the

most in the same embarrassing Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank,'re- situation as Mlle. Zelle in the So- turned from Manila by the 8.6.

ciety Islands.

Jevons relates that President Coolidge. ·

this lady, a singer of the Theatre

SHADOWS BEFORE

COMING EVENTS ADVERTISED IN CHINA MAIL.

To-day

Social Functions.

-Tea Dances at Hong

| Kong Hotel and King's Restaurant;

Lyrique at Parle, made a profes Mr. D. M. Maynard, Assistant Dinner Dances at Hong Kong and alonal tour round the world, and U. S. Trade Commissioner, returned Peninsula Hotels. gove 蟲 concert In the Society from a pleasure trip to Manila by Islanda..

FOR THE POOR.

In exchange for an air the 8.8. President Coolidge. from "Norma" and a few other songs she was to receive a third part of the receipts. When court- led her share was found to consist of three pigs, twenty-three turkeys, forty-four chickens, five thousand coconuts, besides considerable: quantities of bananas, lemons, and

oranges.

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Rose Day and Fete Results.

$20,760 REALISED.

At the Halles, in Paris, the prima) The compound of the Roman donnn pointed out, this amount of Catholic Cathedral presented an

p.m.

To-morrow-Ten Dance at Hong Kong Hotel; Dinner Dances at Hong Kong and Peninsula Hotels.

Entertainments.

To-day —K In g's Theatre; "The Smiling Lieutenant."

To-day- Queen's Theatre; "The Hottentot.”

Today Central Theatre; "Up For Murder.”.

To-day Majestic Thostso: "Aloha,"

Today Star Theatro:

Dec. 11-Miss Hook of Holland,"

live stock and vegetables might animated scone yesterday when "Madam.Satan." have brought four thousand francs, the 48th annual. bazaar of the which would have been good re-Society of St. Vincent de Paul was Theatre Royal, 9.10 p.m. Home Mails. muneration for five songs. In the held. It attracted lange numbers Society Islands, however, pieces of of people during the afternoon To-morrow-Inward from Europe money were very scarce, and as and evening. and lasted until via Siberia (Felix Roussel); Out- Mademoiselle could not consume any 11.30

All the usual ward for Europa vin Marseilles considerable portion of the receipts stalls were to be found at (Felix Roussel), 2:30 p.m.; for

fair, and herself it became necessary in the the

these,

Siberia de. Europe via

(President meantime to feed the pigs and poul-corated with flags and Inden with Coolidge), 4.30 p.m. try with

the fruit-Manchester many dainty goods presented a Guardian..

splash of coloura. In the evening,! the grounds resembled fairyland when it was illuminated by strings

News in Brief.

Yesterday the lowest open temperature was 67 degrees. humidity was 73 at 10 a.m. and

at 4 p.m.

$400 in money.

A meeting of the St.

air

of vari-coloured electrle bulbs.

There was much fun in the farm:

EXCHANGES.

TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS.

On London-

The yard where winners had their

68hands full-some with struggling Bank, Wire

squealing sucking pigs, others Bank, On demand with gobbling turkeys, or vuckling sight chickens, or quacking ducks. Many Credits. 4 months'

aight

Andrew's

Mr. D. W. Scott, a passenger on the 8.8. Teinan from Shanghai to were obviously sorry that they had. Hong Kong, reports that between won and rather envied the losers Documentary,

who could stand by with their hands months sight Symphony"; any of Chopin's Shanghai and Swatow on December waltzes; Schumann's Papil-3, some person stole from his cabin in their pockets and indulge in a

good laugh at the "lucky" ones' ex- On demand lons" and "Carnival"; "The

pense!

There wore also a number of Peanut Vendor," by I don't know whom; Easthope Mar- branch of the Scripture Union will competitions and raffles, the re- tin's "Evensong"; Jarnefeldt's take place in the St. Andrew's aults of which have not yet been On demand

Church Hall at o'clock this announced. "Praeludium"; some parts of evening, when the speaker will be some of Beethoven's piano the Rev. E. C. H. Tribbeck. sonatas, but I can nover re-

A ridiculous

farce, coupled member the opus numbers.

with sparkling comedy and

with an Brahms's "Hungarian terminating

oxcit- crash, amply dirigible

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665

On Berlin-

On New York- The Ford motor-car, the most On demand.. attractive raffle, was won by ticket Credits, 60 days' sight 25 No. 1188, held by Mr. G. C, Louey, On Bombay... of the Kowloon Motor Bus Co. Wire Consolation prizes in this raffo On demand were won by the following:', 2nd On Calcutta- prize, No. 2955; 3rd prize, No. 789; Wire... 4th prize, No. 2741; 5th prize, No. On demand 1288; and 6th prize, No: 2346.

Nom.

28/

934

934

934

93%

On Singapore----

60%

On Manila-

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Dances"; "The Waltz Song" ing

describes Mr. Cecil B. de Mille's from "Tom Jones"; Chopin's lavish spectacle, an M-G-M all-

It is estimated that this year's On demand "Berceuse"; "The Wedding of talking-singing production, "Madam drive, including the street sale of

On Shanghai-

the Three Blind Mice"; "The Satan," which attracted full houses roses, netted in approximately On demand Casse-Noisette Suite" (exclud-at the Star Theatre yesterday, | $20,750.

where it is being screened until ing the "Chinese Dance" for Wednesday. bassoon and piccolo).

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On Yokohama- "The Hottonhot" pleased fans ''Monsieur Beaucaire"!

On demand at the Queen's Theatre when music: "Berceuse de Jocelyn,”

Sovereigns (Bank's it was Acreened for the first

buying rate) by Godard; Grainger's "Shep-time yesterday. The leading

A Tree in California. Silver (per oz.) Everett Edward herd's Hey"; and the pizzicato players

Miller. and Patsy Ruth movement from one of Tschai-Patsy is mad on horses, and Ed-

The largest living thing of kovsky's symphonies Iward mad on Patsy and mad at earth has been definitely dis-Copper Cash as such, Copper Cents think the fourth.

horsea. Patsy, however, would not covered, and labelled (consider any man who was not a after a committee of engineers Rate of Native In- What will at once strike most good rider and this leads Edward to had ransacked the forests of people who know anything of conquer his dislike for horses and California. All the big trees Chinese Sub. Coln. 2534% dis.

ride The Hottentot, the friskiest there have now been measured, Hong Kong Sub. Coln Par. music is that this is a typical horse in capacity, in a steeplechase. and the championship has been selection; it is very characteris-He clings on to the horse for dear awarded to a sequoia, or giant Mrs. Winifred Warren, tic of the general taste of a huge life and lets the gee-gee to do the red-wood, in Sequoia National Gloucester Gate, was unconscious Park, known as "The General and her heart had stopped when

in a moderate degree, gramo

tercat

of

Is it only a coincidence that local criticisms of broadcasting programmes should virtually synchronise with the arrival of the Home papers containing equally violent criticisms of the B.B.C. programmes? It may be that there will always be differ- ences of opinion until, as Sir James Jeans seems to suggest, we can practically abolish time and pick up whatever radiations we like out of the past. In that day, of course, we shall be able to evade all the Bach fugues,

Once in a while we have an op- National Park tree, "The Gen-Bay recently. A policeman applied phone and radio enthusiasts. portunity to see a motion picture eral Grant," is the runner-up. artificial respiration, etc., by simply switching back

which seems to possess entertain-More than a thousand observa- fteen minutes the heart beat again. to the original rendering of "Ta- The pieces selected are prac-ment qualities in an unusual degree. tions and calculations showed She is now progressing satisfac- |ra-ra-boom-de-ay” by Lottie tically all of a tuneful sort; it is Such A pictura is "Up for that "The General Sherman" torily in the hospital to which she

Collins herself; or, the more in the common element of melodi-Much,"

а Universol produc- contains 600,120 "board feet" of was removed.

yesterday open- timber, has a height of 272.4 quisitive of us may learn at last ous rhythm in them that consti-tion which

jed .an. engagement

the feet, and a ground circumference at tutes their appeal. "what song the Sirens sang"!

In fact, it Central Theatre, It has drama, of 88 feet. One limb alone has the Victoria Palace recently, And One thing, however, seems to has constituted their appeal to a decided love interest, an unusually a diameter of 6.8 feet. "The Sir Harry Lauder answered, "I have been insufficiently noticed such purpose that the first gen-capable cast, and an atmosphere of General Grant" is rather higher, don't mind the 'Harry' but cut out amid all the disputation about eral criticism of a more "culti-reality which is exceptional, even bigger round the base, and is the old. "

in these days of almost uncanny probably older, but it contains programmes. It is that, in spite vated" musician would be that realism on the screen. Law Ayres about one-tenth less timber.

some

number of those who are, even rest, and they win the race! Sherman." Another Sequoia taken from the water at Thorpe

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and after

"Good old Harry," they cried at

To-day's Thought.

Ten Years Ago.

[From the "Chisa Mall” of,

December 7, 1921.)

of the bitterness with which the programme was too hackney- completely falfils the promise Both are from 4,000 to 5,000

of a great future, which he years old, of the disputants rejected to be interesting.

registered not long ago in A slice from near the base of what they call "high-brow stuff". From his point of view that Universa epic of the World War, one of the giant sequoias of Call- Life does not mean much to the and the aneoring contempt with would be valid criticism, and it "All Quiet On the Western Front."fornia, on which have been mark man who has not learned the value: which others retort upon "low-would be unnecessary to discuss

jed the growth attained at the time of a friend. The screen's unique personality, of various important dates in the brow" taste, there really has the selection in detail. Nobody loved the world over for himself, his world's, history, is to be seen in been an appreciable raising of wants to hear the same old songs, his vivacity, is showing at the Natural History Museum at the level of popular taste within things repeated endlessly or to the King's Theatre to-day in his South Kensington,

new starring picture, "The Smiling In the Californian forest, near the past generation.

maké our meals of nothing but Lieutenant." He Is Maurice Bull Creek Flat, is a redwood A popular newspaper writer sweet dishes. But from the Chevalier, the smiling French en-which is believed to be the tallest

To-day's dollar is worth 2/7 %. at Home, who may be said with broadest point of view it is far tertainer, whose love-making and tree in the world. Its height is out offence to be generally on the more important to note that the

love-singing have made. him 863 feet.

The Board of Trade, in addition the idol of two continents. More tall trees are to found in side of the "low-brown," the selection is of far better quality "The Smiling Lieutenant is a Australls than anywhere else into awarding the silver medal of gal- "plain man,". or however one than would have been popular a rollicking romance, with all the love the world among the numerous lantry in saving life at sea to Capt. should describe those who re generation ago When we look and song appeal of his first moving species of blue gums, or eucalypti. E. R. G. R. Evans, R.N., Lieut- picture, "Innocents of Parla"; with, Foresters have measured hundreds Comdr. I. B.. B. Tower, R.N., and. pudiate any pretension to "cul- back on the kind of musical stuff all the luxury of setting and story of a height exceeding 300 Zeet. A Gunner J. G. Dewer, R.N., and a ture," was challenged to say that used to be in vogue, and roof. The Love Parade with the prize offered in Melbourne for bronze medal to Leading Seaman what he really did like in music. flect that the mere mention of atar of another Chevalier screen proof of the height of the tallest W. G. Eldrett and Able Souma He courageously accepted the Chopin, Brahms or Beethoven Colbert, in one of leading feminine won by evidence of a eucalyptus also awarded a plece of piste to "The Big Pond," Claudette tree standing on the continent was Whitehead of: H.M.8. Carlisle, have challenge, and here is the list of would have scared away any roles; with another bright screen 325 feet high. Since then taller | Capt. Reginald Turnbull, master, of... - favourite pieces as he gave it:- popular audience we cannot but light, gorgeous Miriam Hopkins, ones have been found. There is a the Chins Navigation Coa, &

"The Changing of the perceive that there has been an in an equally leading role, and well-authenticated record of Shanal, who succeeded in picking up, with Charlie Huggies, lovable Eucalyptus regnans in the State about 45. survivors from the wreck Guard," by Flotsam or Jetsam immense advance in musical edu comedian, in an important sup of Victoria which was 248 feet of the steamer Hong Moh last `ur both; Dvorak's “New World cation.

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March.