1932-10-25 — Page 7

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1982.

School Examination "Lottery"

(Continued from Page 8.)

the usual School Certificate exami-amination of Londen University.

$20,000 in Fees

THE CHINA MAIL.

Y.M.C.A. CONCERT Famous Screen Actor Smiles

FOR LINCOLNS:

Entertainment Varied By Artists.

MALE CHOIR SINGS.

On Hong Kong

(Continued from Page 1.)

He is bound for Saigon, where "Mary is batter known thân tuy- he will commence a hunting trip self," he smiled. "Why, I am often The situation revealed by this English. French and mathematics, The Lincolnshire Regiment They will set the traps for us called Mr. Pickford. In England experiment is the mare serious and this was sufficient to exempt was entertained at the Y.M.C.A., before we reach Saigon and we they always call me that. Still, I when one realises that in most of him from the Matriculation ex-Kowloon, last night with a pro- will start off almost as soon as got one up on the wife while we nations, and in the London Matri-The certificate itself was not suffi-gramme which was arranged by the rumour that he had planned in the sunny south, and I had ob we arrive," he said. Regarding were in Italy. It was right down culation, English is a compulsory clent for Edinburgh University; Mr. G. W. True of the Social a hunting trip in Fukien pro- tained a courier. I was trying to subject. I venture to suggest that they required. in addition, a guaran-Committee. Among those province, he shook his head slowly explain to him who my wife was, it should be omitted altogether un-tee from London University that

when he suddenly burst into Eng- til some better system of marking the credits recorded on the certif- sent were Major Thoyts, Capt. but made no comment.

Out of Pictures. Mackenzie, can be devised..

|lish, 'Wa, all know Mrs.. Pinkerton, cate would give the boy exemption. Pennack, Lieuts

"Brigandage"

"Hollywood is fine" he replied in she is very popular here." Pim, Hocquan, Young and Powell. The last point on the subject of I sent the boy's certificate to the A welcome speech was given by pictures are out. I'm out of pic- saw the Olympic games at Holly answer to a question. "Gangster Before he left, Mr. Fairbanks examinations should, perhaps be Matriculation Council of London Mr. F. H. Crapnell, chairman of tares now, and have been, really, wood. He was generous in his

It is University, asking them to give me

Work since I made the Iron Mask The praises of the British Empire things I am doing now are not sportsmen, whom he described as really pictures. I only do them having put up a wonderful fight.

Praises Athletes, “The Japanese athletes were cer- To my amazement, however, I programme were the "Sailors in the boss.TM*

"What do I know about the Paul tainly magnificent too,” he said. "I received a reply stating that no Chorus" and "Bonnie Charlie" Bern suicide in Hollywood! crossed the Pacifc with them and "decision could be given as to aung by the Y.M.C.A. Male Voice Nothing There are hundreds of found them delightful company. It

candidate's eligibility for exemp Choir. Other

entertainment excuses for any movie person to was they who dirged me to play golf, I commend this incident to the was given by the Rev. J. M. L. commit suicide. ... What's Fair- but they kept me up half the night, Board of Education as an illustra Bryan, followed by "Birds of My daughter has just acted in I have been playing golf for four

banks Junr, doing? Everything much to the detriment of my game.]} tion of the misuse of power, little Morn," sung by Miss Zena Wig-"Rain." Not so good as Jean years and was beaten in Japan. I short of brigandage, exercised by a public body in the courses of its gins. The Rhythm Boys," Eagles, though. Young Fairbanks fared no better in Shanghai during

dealt with from the pulpit.

the question of the influence of a note that it satisfied their regula the YMCA. Services Hammon. The London Matriculations, expecting, perhapa, "to have Committe.

tion, or one of the School Certificate to pay 2s 6d for the clerical work The opening numbers of the because Mary makes me work. She

EX-

a

involved.

tion without a fee of £3 39."

educational function. The exact re- Messrs. F. C. Appleby and Chas. Hope to have him out here next arrival.

is a fine fellow, we're good friends. the first few matches after my,

Perhaps it would be possible for

examinations, may easily bring in a return of £20,000 in fees during the "year, and this should provide a very tempting surplus after paying for -the examiners and the printing.

Quite recently. I had an perierice which indicated that some of the officials at any rate, keep sharp look-out for the fees which can be extracted from a long-suffer Ing public. There was a boy in my house who wanted to enter Edin burgh University, and to satisfy the lationship of the Board of Education Downs, received much applause time if he can leave his polo."

Fiske, a traveller whom requirements of their Entrance to these examining bodies is difficult for three numbers.

I inst there, and myself, managed Mr. G. F. Mr. Fairbanks, - who is Board it was necessary for him to to define; it is, indeed, rather doubt-d'Aquino, tenor, sang two select of the owners of the United Artista sional and a scratch man during

one to defeat the Seekingjao profes- how that he had passed anful whether the board is able to ex-

Corporation commented favourably later match. numbers. examination which would

That was the first exempt ercise any controlling influence.

upon the amalgamation of his com- time I was him from the entrance examination i

The second half opened with a

In match on form. of some English University. questions auch as those discussed musical burlesque, The Dis- "It is very advantageous, and to win, but if not well.

pany with British interests..

play, if one gets the breaks, one can He The boy in question had secured above to be dealt with by the

orderly Room," those taking begin with the British pictures will spread his hands. a school certificate with five credits Secondary School Examination obtained simultaneously, including 1 Council

part being C. S. Beat, as the set a fine circulation in America, He expressed a great admiration Up to the present they have not for Shanghai, and said he wished he Colonel, Bdsmn. Taylor, as the been getting any of the breaks could have been there during the R.S.M.; Bdsmn. Hunt, as the The amalgamation will make us Sino-Japanese trouble, preferably Escort, Sgt. Spauglton, as the responsible for their popularity with Will Rogers and Floyd Gib-

and will make us more interested. bons. witness; and Pte. Quiggley, as the of course, we are producing things Japan was alse a splendid coun prisoner.

over in England, so it is quite a try, he added. He denied, making Songs rendered by the Male mutual advantage.”

a speech in Japanese in Kobe. Choir and another number was

Likes: "The Next One”.... tried it on the Japanese captain of given by Miss Wiggins. The

"When asked which of his own the ship, and the latter laughed at programme was brought & close pictures he liked the best, he said

him. He does not know where he by the Rhythm Boys...

that the public in general liked will go after this trip or what pic The Mark of Zorro. He, personalture he will make. Perhap's he'll ly, always liked his "next one the go up the Amazon. best. In answer to questions!

...

SHANGHAI-NANKING DECLINE IN

EXPRESS RESUMES.

Service Suspended In Time Of Warfare.........

NEW CHAPEI STATION,

Nanking, Oct. 15.

The noon express between Nank. fog and Shanghai was resumed to-

JAPANESE

IMPORTS

Hong Kong's Trade For Nine Months. ~.

EXCHANGE FLUCTUATIONS.

J14

A heavy decline of imports day, according to an announcement from Japan is contained in the by the Nanking-Snanghal Railway Statistical Department's report Administration. This daily ser on the trade of Hong Kong, from| vice was suspended during the January to September this year. Sino-Japanese hostilities in Shang Imports totalled only $14.9 mil- hai and was not restored in view lions as compared with $60.3 of the shortage of rolling-stock millions for the same period last part of which had been damaged year.

Imports of piece goods from Japan fell from $22.6 mil-

during the hostilities.

One express train will leave lions to $5.4 millions, while im-

INDIFFERENCE IN GERMAN WORK:

about the depression in America, Plenty of Tin and “Peg.”

he'said that things were picking up

He

He came.

on

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PART II.

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IN

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"COCK OF THE AIR"

SHOWING SOON

This is Mr. Fairbanks third and movies were feeling the rise, visit to the Colony. "Radio cuts in on the movies, how-December 6, 1929, accompanied by RKO - RADIO'S GREATEST WONGER SHOW,

Mary Pickford Fairbanks...On But Are Broadens

ever," he added.

coincidence, A JUGGERNAUT OF THE Returning to Hollywood topics, that occasion, by a In Interest:

he spoke highly of the "Sidelights"Mary met her alster, Lottle, who of Hollywood, written by Mr. was staying at the Peninsula Hotel.

TAWONDER! STRUCK'S ETCHINGS,

Edgar Wallace. "I did not see him "Doug," who this morning was myself but I put his son to work in dressed in a grey, mottled sports Nanking for Shanghai daily at 12.ports of food-stuffs declined from sione and unconcern with surface

jacket and flannels, looked, hale and Indifference to agreeable impres one of the studios," he added. 30 p.m. and another will leave $13.9 millions to $0.8 millions..

After his hunting trip, he is hearty as usual, with a very tanned Shanghai for Nanking at 12.35 p.m.- During the period under re-porary German

charm marks the group of contem expecting Mrs. Fairbanks to join face and plenty of enthusiasm.

prints on view him, and she will probably arrive tion of the new railway depot at view this year, the average rates through August at the Roerich in Shanghal in November, after Shanghai in place of the old North of exchange fluctuated from a Museum, preliminary to going on which the two will visit Peiping, Station, it is learnt that the Recon-low of Is. 234d. in April to a tour. While these etchings and Siam and then India. struction Committee of the Nan-high of 1s. 5.3/16d in February, lithographs all are lent from the king-Shanghai and Shanghai-Hang- the average for the nine months collection of Mr. Erich Cohen, and (Continued from previous column). chow-Ningpo Railways has decided being 1s, 34d.

With reference to the construc-

as such may reflect to some degree

"

to build a temporary station at The Statistical Office of the Im-his taste in selection, the general paper, into suave values of light Chapel on the Sungkungyaan Road, ports and Exports Department re-effect of emphasis upon veracions and shade. Herr Louis Corinth de- near the Sung Chiao-jen Garden. ports that during the first nine essentials is too márkád not to be picts himself as if catching the Work has already begun and is ex-months of 1932 (January/Septem- taken as an indication of an artis-motion of the head 'as it turns from pected to be completed in four ber), the declared value of mer-tic drift. In swinging away from mirror to easel., Similarly trans- chandise imported into the Colony expressionism toward an objective cending the conventional static

months.

Travelling with Mr. Fairbanks are Mr. C. C. Lewis and Mr. Allen Boone, who will be members of the [hunting, party,

U.S. CHINA FLEET

TO VISIT HERE.

Flotilla To Remain

From Nov. 1 to go

In the meantime, preparations amounted to $477.8 millions (281.4 concern with humanity, German art portrait is Herr Már Stivogh's On Tuesday, November 1, the for a permanent station at Chenje millions), as compared with $649.8 in recent years has broadened in "Violinist," in which only the head U.S.S. Fulton, which has been as- are being made in accordance with millions (£26,7 millions) in the cor-interest again, Waning is the is at rest; the fingers and low are signed to South Chine, will arrive plans of the Committee. It is responding period of 1981.

cult-like effect of introspective per- in the transitional blur of music-in port, and will be followed on OURAČE NE stated that the new station will be Exports were declared to a total sonalities that marked the work of making positions. the only

one of its kind, both in value of $352.3 millions (£29.2 mil- the extreme expressionists writes size and in equipment, in all "the lions), as compared with $408.2 E. G. Sherbourne, for the Christian Far East, and there will be a sub- millions (£19,7 millionss).. way underneath Kuo Min.

GOES TO GENEVA.

Expected To Accept.

Honourable Peace.

view.

Science Monitor. ·

Max Liebermann.

November 2, by the US.S. Black Hawk, destroyer depot ship, and ten destroyers of the U.S. Asiatic Herr Max Liebermann's "Ghetto, Fleet. This flotilla will remain in the platform~| In terms of local currency, Importa Artists represented in this exhi-Amsterdam," represents the vision port until November 8,

declined, 18.0 per cent., and Exports bition are conscious of living in a of the artist, rather than the eye On November 12, the Comman- 12.8 per cent, as compared with the European post-war world. They of the camera, in its report of a der-in-Chief of the U.S. - Asiatic JAPAN'S DELEGATE corresponding period, in 1991; but see on every band social manifester orowded siresti We focus on a few Fleet will sum ve 26 Hong

sterling values showed appreciations tions to be confronted, not advoid- central figures, while others trail aboard the USS, » Hour of 17.6 per cent. and 17.8 per cent. ed. Theirs is the art not of escape off vaguely in the corner of the flagship Accompanying respectively.

but rather of living more intensely eye. Of the buildings we have ton will be the Com During the period under re-in a day of new problema Tragic mere impressions of structural Chief's yacht, the Isabel the import trade from import marks the lithographs of character... At every polat (the Thursday, October 27, the United Kingdom show- Fraulein Kathe Kollwitz. In such etcher discourages the wandering Day for the US Navy, ed a marked⠀⠀ incresse, ad- a conception as "Futility with eye and returns it to his point of tions are under way amo London, Yesterday. vancing from 10.9 per cent of the its bent gure of a mother who has emphasis. The same etcher's por United States ships" "The departure for Geneva of total in 1931 to 182 per cent. in nothing more to give her desperate trait of "Professor Cohen is cur- present is port fitingly Mr. Matsuoka, League of Nations 1982. French Indo-China, Siam, ly hungry children, the ranges beiously forceful in its capture of a the day delegate, ia given prominence in the India, Australia and Belgium, also side Daumier in power of arraigo fleeting but strongly Individual newspapers to-day.

recorded slightly increased shares of ment of a society that is pitiless to phase of character. .... Political circles, underlining the the import trade the most notable the weak Besolation parting statement suggesting there falling-off being that of Japan. In lution this composition be opposition to the Lyttonites, 1930 Japan accounted for 12.3 per through until it atta counsel the restoration of Sino-cent. of the total imports into the concentration of its essent Bovereignty in Manchuria. Serious Colony; in 1931 11 per cent.; and in fect that simply sttention, however, la not placed 1982 the percentage fell to 8.2-per Finality of ano

Bort with on it.

cent.

social criticism Bays,

Imports from the British Empire noticedy

It is not what Matsuoka

but, what he is going to say at 26 a whole increased from 17.2 per figure Geneva," remarks an article in the cent, in 1930 to 18.1 per cent in News Chronicle, declaring that the 1981 and 22.4 per cent. in

more the Lytton report Is studled,

the more statesmanlike

Svirtualy,

she asked for.

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and?

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of the French

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