1932-02-22 — Page 7

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1932.

By Ingr Brown."

SITTING UP LATE

ENFRANCHISEMENT IN THE NURSERY.

The Party.

It is the season when lights are the night is but a babe. It in- ablaze in every window of the select dulges or independence. Even the Invitation more sofma humans can feel a trifle suburban residence. cards have gone out. The hired doggish when, like their cats, they conjurer is coming down the avenue. are minions of the moon.

SHARE MARKET.

Speculators Speculating at Happy Valley.

NO MARKET TO SPEAK OF,

The official summary issued by the Stock Exchange to-day states:

All attention being absorbed in the Races, there was no market to speak of at the opening this morn- ing.

Buyers.

Union Insurance, $405. Chinese Estates, $95.

14,

Amusements, $10.

Sellers.

Docks, $29, China Lights (old), $21. Cements (comb.), $16.86.

THE CHINA MAJE.

HONG KONG YORKSHIREMEN'S

DINNER

THE GOVERNOR'S SPEECH.

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around.

There was excellent

In proposing the toast of the, ago he often went walking through Society on February 19, on the the Yorkshire Ridings, and he al- occasion of the annual dinner of my felt that there was nothing to beat the scenery. He left it to the Hong Kong Yorkshire fereigners to travel amid the smut men's Society, Sir Willams and grime of · Leeds, Sheffield and Peel, said as

Bradford, although even these cities President of the Yorkshire Society he welcom- ha hot spoilt the pretty country" ed that night the guests present, Singapore Tractions (Prof.) n/- and in particular the Presidents of In sport they could claim to be the various national Societies in hunting to be found in several

pre-eminent. Hong Kong.

He trusted that they did not think Parts of the county, while York)

shiro were that Yorkshiremen had been some-

the present cricket what presumptious in starting a

shampions, a position they had Society on the lines of the national hell for a number of years during societies, because they regarded the last 20 or 30 years. In foot- Yorkshire as a county. But York- ball they used to be pre-eminent, shiremen claimed

but since the split in the Northern it to be some- thing more:

position it was

Union, their

was not not just A county, but a country (hear! hear!) quite what used to be.

They, in Yorkshire, thought no a country of great re sources. They had only to take small beer of themselves, and his that Yorkshiremen the matter of food, wife, Bald was true they did not produce ought a great deal too much of themselves, but he generally haggia, but they did a great deal

clinch the argument managed to In regard to supplying other na tional needs, such as the Yorkshiru by reminding her that she had pudding, Doncaster butter scotch,, two Yorkshire sons of whom she York hama, and York chocolate was very proud (heart hear!). Pro-They need only take for one exampl a factory in York which employed

RADIO

TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME.

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It was

for instance

So are small, tremulous, squeaking But there is another side to it. figures in cloaks and gum-boots. To- It is a curious fact that we, or at night's the night, for "after tea" is least some of us, do feel in better night. From nine to six may be form when the sun has gone down. the hours of normal human labour; One's temperature of body good it is the reverse of this time-tablejup in the evening and the pulse of which carries January magic. From mind beats quicker too. I can see six till nine, those are the hours. no rational excuse for this, and, of For the recipient of the card bed-course, it is not universal. But the time may be at seven, seven-thirty, idea of writing novels before break- or eight. But now he or she is fast, Trollope-wise, is surely sur- licensed to be at large at nine and prising to the average person and The following programme will probably remains at liberty a good abhorrent to the average scribe. It be broadcast to-day from the Honga deul later. Here's enfranchisement is not a matter of physiological Kong Broadcasting Station Z.B.W. indeed! Nurses or other gloomy stimulus that makes dinner-parties on a wavelength of 355 metres eldera and escorts may arrive at easier than lunch-parties; one may

(845 K.C.'8) The Laurels at 8.55, but not much begin both with the tongue-loosen-

5-7 p.m.-Chinese Pragrantbe, 7.-10.30 Nor is it chiefly that revelling childhood ing aperitif.

p.m. Europe Wil be achieved before 9.30. the midday meal may be saddened gramme. The

7.05-7.41 p.m. party

be may

secretly by thoughts on work to come, while voted leas good than

late, while there was the the supper or the dinner have only Band and Orchestral Selections.

(4) Air de Ballet (b) Callichoe -one last Wednesday; but that is no the afterglow and none of the drab

(Chaminade), It is reason for leaving without being aftermath of the afternoon.

recovery

of

7,000 girls and men to make choco- Harrogate toffee, 'and Wensleydale cheese,

Although they did not distill Pas De Cymbales (Chaminade), I whisky as they did in Scotland and The Band of H. M. Coldstream, Ireland, they had the excellent Guards C1501. Tadcaster ale, which he knew was

worth while drinking.

Doubtless they had all read when they were young of the wars

hetween the Roses, which seemed to he still going strong. He remem- bered how at one time the wars be- were rather tween the counties sanguinary affairs, and although they were not so much so to-day, they still had the contests at Bram- well Lane, Headingly and Old Trafford. In racing they had the great

Judging from the re- International Concert Orch.classic St. Leger, as well as

the parts of some of the cricket played' C1326,

Doncaster and York meetings, while on these grounds, he would imagine; in music, although they had not

that the spectators sometimes wish- produced the bagpipes of Scotlanded the contests were of the more or the harps of Ireland or Wales, sanguinary type of 100 years ago. they did a good deal of singing, and (Laughter.) their musical festivals at Leeds and Harrogate were of some consider able note.

dragged. In childhood's eye uny simply, in my opinion, that two to party is a good party which goes on four is a sorry time of day and best long enough and defies the loath-spent by those nations who are able

Eyes to blot it out with a siesta. These The Skaters (Waldteufel), some tyranny of bed-time. may be sticky with sleep and are no hours for the sharp riposte Estudiantina (Waldteufel), .stomachs queasy with the

or the apt sweet-of a light conversation

Certain meats, but the will to happiness dialectic of a grave one. soars above such frailty of the flesh. epochs, which had the opportunity In a Persian Market (Ketelbey), In the Summer holidays one can of leisure as we have not, wisely Raymond-Overture (Thomas arr. achieve the victory of being up late omitted a serious lunch and dined by getting tactfully lost in the gar-at tea-time, giving all the dark den or by escapade along the shore. hours to conversation

or its com-

Godfrey), The Band of H. M. Coldstream

Guards U1440.

But the January dalliance is the panion pleasures. Provided that In a Clock Store (Orth),

to A Hunt in the Black, Forest best. To begin with there is the they did not drink themselves licensed luxury of six till mine. stupidity or collapse, they gave the

(Voelker), Then comes the uncovenanted bene-best of the clock and of themselves New Light Symphony Orchestra fit of a snatched half-hour.

C1308.

nursery has its night-life.

The to the social arts and the sweet

exercise of talk prolunged,

I suppose that the great profes- We grown-ups are no whit di ferent. "Special extension." "Danc-sional philosophers paid small re- ing till two." "Cafe open all night." gard to the hours, One visualises The slogans draw the patronage: Hegel clocking in after his morning to the giddy coffee to carry his system a stage even grey heads nod invitation. Night-life eternally a farther, and Herbert Spencer was powerful word to head a catch-penny ready, no doubt, to synthesise the article or blaze across a garish film. universe from nine-thirty to one. In cities which pride themselves on The job could hardly have been done their sophisticated revels the chil-without such methodical applica- dish boast of "Open All Night" istion by such emperors of mental improved upon with a heavy self-systern. But from Plato's Syn-

When consciousness.

I was inposium to the nocturnal orgy of Berlin many years ago I remember, debate in the roomk of under-

to dis-graduates (1932) a cafe whose special claim

the amateur tinction was the fact that it did philosopher has tended to emerge not open till two in the morning, with the evening star and to keep when the mere rabble of commoner the unnatural time-table of the owl. palaces would be inclining towards Was it some sense of the Idea that dismissal of the fagging orchestra Flies by Night which made the Owl and the pulling down of shutters on the symbol of wisdom?

At any the fouled air of the smoke-laden rate, comparing small things with great, we may surmise that Master

rooma.

Is it just the natural antinomian Geoffrey and Miss Pamela, whose impulse of man that paints. the late escorts are becoming impatient in hour with a coloured brush? People the hall of The Laurels, will feel at who have to work at night, such folk nine-thirty, which is ninety minutes as journalists, very soon discover after bed-time, that notions for fur- that there is no romance in being ther sport are just beginning to unable to cease upon the midnight teem in the mind, that the night is But in their days young, and that now is the time for and so sleep.

8 p.m.-Local Time. 7.41-8.20 p.m.-A Concert. Violin Solo--

Chanson Louis XIII et Pavanne

(Couperin-Kreisler),

La Precieuse (Couperin-

Kreisler), Fritz Kreiselr 1503. Vocal Duet--

Sympathy (Straus), The Chocolate Soldier (Straus),

Winnie Melville and Derek

Oldham C1502. Piano Solo-

Murmuring Zephyrs (Jenssen-

Niemann), Rudolph Ganz 1508.

Song-

The Floral Dance (Moss), The Lute Player (Allitsen),

Peter Dawson (Bass-Baritone)}

C1313. Violin Solo-

Danse Espagnole (De Falta-

Kreisler), Fritz Kreisler 1399.

Piano Solo.....

Veils (Debussy), Dancing Virgins of Delphi

(Debussy). Ignace Jan Paderewski 1531. 8.20-9 p.m.

of innocence they doubtless shared men and women to rise triumphant-Symphony No. some of the nocturnal visions ofly above themselves, unleashed

Mr. Belloc's Happy Journalist:

By dirty grates I love to lurk;

I often stoop to take a squint At printers working at their work; I muse upon the rot they print.

At twenty-five to four I bunch

Acosa a cab 1 can't afford.

4.

I order breakfast after lunch,

I am as happy as a lord.

The splendours of a regimen defied

from all dull regimen of chronologi-

cal exactitude... Unless, of course, Master Geoffrey or Miss Pamela is happening to be sick-Manchester Guardian.

A TALE OF

4 in B Minor (Tschalkowski Op. 36) played by the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Leopold Stokowski M48. 9-0.20 p.m.

Making amusing references to the attractions of Harrogate, Sir William said it was supposed to The Scotch bagpipes were re have a very good influence of people garded as melancholy music, but who had lived in the Far East (ap- he thought the Yorkshire National | plause and laughter). It was the Anthem “On Ilkia' Moor Baht "At" | biggest spa in England, with 88|2 |might well rival the Scottish pipes natural springs, He had read af for melancholy, He was a little | description in which the water was diffident in remarking this, and described as a mixture of bad eggs, thought that he might have to safety matches and acetylene, and swallow his words before the he thought it was a very good de- evening was finished.

scription. Harrogate offered ex- The three Ridings of Yorkshire cellont golf links and fine scenery, produced samples of revery form as well as interesting old ruined of English scenery. Many years I abbeys.

European Y.M.C.A. Kowloon of the Lecture by Dr. E. Allen on "WASHINGTON DAY.”

"Dreams" by courtesy of the Entertainment Committee. 9.30-10.05 p.m.

The entire Musical Numbers of the Opera "Trial By Jury" (Gilbert and Sullivan) recorded under the direction of Rupert D'Oyły Carte C-48.

10.05-10.30 p.m.-Operatic. Aida (Verdi)—

Introduction of Moorish Ballet, Aida--

Grande March and Finale,

Creatore's Band C1389. Madam Butterfly (Puccini)

Selections,

The New Light Symphony

Orchestra C1429. Martha (Flotow) Selections,

The Reg. Band of H. M. Cold-

stream Guards €1453. p.m. (Approx:)---Close

10.33 Down.

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RUIN-OUT OF

INCOME TAX

How to Be Celebrated in Hong Kong.

PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATION.

To-day, George Washington's birthday, will be celebrated by the American, Community in Hong Kong with a dinner dance at the American Club).

1932, is the bicentennial of Washington's birth, and this an- niversary is being given 'consider able prominence in the United States, being the subject of a Pre- sidential Proclamation and of a nation-wide commemorative pro- gramme extending from February 22, until the last Thursday In November (Thanksgiving Day).

A commemorative series of United States Postage stamps bearing dif ferent portraits of the first Presi dent has been issued.

The Proclamation.

Under date of February 1, the President has issued the following proclamation:--

cularly pleasant enemy to buffet and Press of December 31). I paid.onel Rain six to one!" bawled thing seemed to snap in William George Washington by fitting cele

ís

Ruin cantered by. He was a great sable beast in final de mand colours of red and black and takes after his mother and off everybody.

ebration ofthe two hundredth

anniversary of his birth, MA

An income tax man and I went then they came out of the pad, like a hare and jumping like a

cat. will always draw some of us to a to Newbury races yesterday dock.

"The happy opportunity has come foolish felicity, and the discipline of (writes D.D. in

"Ruint Ruin!" yelled thousands to our generation to demonstrate the Daily

"Ruin six to one! Ruin six to at the top of their voices. Some our gratitude and our obligation to darkness and the clock is a parti- contemn when the way ward mood is The income tax man's name is George; and William Henry, who Henry: His eyes gleamed. working on a body not too spent. William Henry, and he is af is a sarcastic fellow, asked if The defeat of darkness is one gift friend of mine until January 1. these were his odds or his office of civilisation, a "special, exten-

He agreed to come to the hours. sion," as the saying goes, of the

races with me after leaving be

• There Promethenn gift.

hind his efficient secretary, who punctual slumber in the rooky wond could be relied upon to be nasty and nature's day-foragers turn in to callers. betimes. The night-birds, emerge, Running in the three o'clock but they are as much serfs of the race was a horse named Ruin, sunset and the sunrise as are the out of Income Tax, by all that dlurnal flock. The owl does not is truthful.. stop up till noon, self-consciously I have never been to a race. L'ad-about, making a day of it meeting before, and I do not Our domesticated animals, their propose to pay," said William morals and time-tables ruined by Henry the human contact, may fly to the moonlit tiles after a day of ambush and expectation among the rodents. But the cat is not to be confined in any argument. He is out of a ture. We, who are masters of the sunlight and the starlight, but have apportioned the latter, to the sleep of the just like sometimen to pool

"I will pay for you.”

"Oh!" said, William Henry.

I introduced him to a book maker.

"George," I said, "this is the income tax man."

Yah said George promptly

ORGAN NOVELTIES

Simple Trust. “Ruin!"" he bawled, and, delv. To contemplate his unselfish de ing about his body, produced avotion to duty, his courage," his leather purse and took from it patience, his genug, his statesman, da

ship, and His accomplishments for we a two-shilling piece.

"Ruin!" he yelled, and thrust his country and the world refreshen it into George's palm.

the spirit, the wisdom and the ・ “I am a bookmaker, not a sloty patriotism of our people. PLEA machine,” anarled George, Adria; Therefore eL - Herbert Hoover, "Ruin shrieked William President of the United States of Henry, mad with the gambling America, acting in accordance with lust, the purposes of the Congress do In- The field flashed by the port vita all our people to organize them- William Henry held out his hand, selvés through every community, and and the look of simple trust in every association to do honour to his eyes was beautiful, the memory of Washington, during Tve won twelve shillings,"", ha the perfod" from February 22 10 said happily, ornati Thanksgiving Day, 192750 That racal Ruin was a, little "You ain't said George. And I hereby direct that down at the start. He ran in in- "Ruin 18” third. Ferrans has anniversary of his birth the flag of stalments, and appeared to have won

We had all stared Ruin in the face in the paddock, and he was a red-hot tip. Hundreds of pounds were wagered on him.

George began to shout, "Rain four Ruin four Ruin four," and William Henry said, "I bet

you will."

✨ no chance. Then in the liv

last quarter his jockey made a WAH 1ook No Notice.4 #final derrand and Ruin leapt for 13

William Henry walked away ward as I he had been stung by Fab

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