1932-12-23 — Page 11

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1932.

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TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME.

The following programme will be broadcast to-day from the Hong Kong Broadcasting Station Z.B.W. on a wavelength of 355 metres 1845 K.C.'s) -

Victor & II.M.V; records.

1 p.m.-Local Time & Weather Re- port.

RENO'S RECORD CHALLENGED.

.Divorce Stream In Minden.

1

(Reuter's Special Mail Service.)

Reno.

A desire for more secrecy than is possible in Rono has resulted in 12.30 p.m.-European programme of rising popularity as divorce centre

for several outlying communities,

Fairly well removed from this more populous city and its many News,

Stock newspaper man, their comparative

isolation aifords escape for thou who dread publication of the news of their temporary residence in

1.30 p.m.- Rugby Press Selected London & New York Quotations, etc.,

2 p.m.-Close Down. 5-7 p.m.-Chinese Programme. 7.10.30 p.m.-European Programme. 1.-Closing Local Stock Quota.

7.cted London & New

tions,

Stock Quotations.

7.169.10 p A programme Victor & IM.V. records.

7.15-7.32 p.m.~~.

· Metropolid (Ferdie Grofo)

York

Paul Whiteman & His Concert Orch. 36033/35934,

7.32-8 p.m.-Variety. Fox Trot-

You Fascinate Me

Song

Nevada.

THE CHINA MAIL.

TWO OF THOSE WOMEN WHIPPING POSTS

(Continued from page 7.)

I saw on the face of the younger killed or sent to another front, per- woman a sudden expression of utter hapa killed there, perhaps, married disgust and annoyance. She was, I to someone

AN ECONOMY.

Move To Put Down Crime Wave. (Reuter's Special Mail Service,)

Woodbury, New Jersey, Whipping posts as an "economy” am sure, thinking: "Oh, you tedious know. I tell you, I don't know. I measure and a "deterrent in crime" old fool! What do I care about shall never know. It was more than are advocated by the Glouceator your ridiculous son? Don't you ten years ago this coming April, county October Grand Jury for New understand I'm trying to tell you when the chestnut trees were blos-Jersey lawbreakers. pater, the most wonderful person in canal about Peter. Peter! you know, my soming along the banks of the

After returning 283 true billa

the world."

between inc

then

•

.... مفاه

I don't

woman.

I was only a girl gainst law violators, the largest oh, my God!"

number for any Grand Jury are in The old lady was continuingi She was trembling from the effect the history of the county, the "It seems strange to me, my dear, of this little outbreak, but in the jurors adopted a resolution request- that after all these years, that part pause she seemed to realise that it ing local state legislators to intro of it seems unrent. I can remember was she who had been monopolising duce and support in the State comfort-Legislature a bill permitting the The little farming community of very little about it. Nothing at all the conversation. It was Minden, fifty miles south of here about names and places and regi- ing to have anyone to tell all this establishment of whipping posts. ofis the most popular of the neigh-ments and all those things. It was to, you could see. And, after all, houring county seats. Several pro-just a terrible night mare coming the poor old lady had lost her son.

and Georgic. When Could it be as terrible to lose a son still alive.” minent persons have been divorced] there in recent weeks, That they when he was a baby or a boy."

I think of him it is always of him as a lover? Controlling, herself, I think this interested me more

she said: "Where was your boy than it did the younger were in the State - did not become known until several hours after each | The expression of the younger killed 7"

Indeed, her brow puckered into had been divorced.

woman suggested: "What was the The older woman was apparently little perplexed frown, as though interest of a baby and a schoolboy reacting to this emotional display, she thought that the other had not compared with the interest of a Her eyes were fixed on the ground, been quite playing the game. Why young man in the first flush of and her tongue was beating a little all this extravagant grief if she had virile manhood? She fldgeted in tattoo between her lips. She did not lost the boy after all?

What her chair, and there was a silence.not answer the question.

was the old woman making this The two of them seemed to fall: "That dreadful uncertainty!" fuss about? The latter was con-1 apart and forget each other. After she suddenly exclaimed, "how it has tinuing. a pause they drifted together again eaten me up. Men have never quite "He was captured by the Turks, like magratory birds on a long known what it means. Why do they you know. Did I tell you? Was it flights. Strangely enough, It was have these wars? Why can't they the Turks or the Arabs? Some of the elder woman who seemed who come to some arrangement, I say? those dark people, anyway, over seemed first conscious of their need You are young, my dear. You may there."

Buddy Rogers & His Orch, 24001.{

A Cottage for Sale

Gracio Fields (Comedienne) B3463.] Fox Trat-

The Wooden Soldier and the Chinni

Doll

Not Shilkret & the Victor Orch.

Song-

Columbine's Garden

Minuet in G (Beethoven) Valse Miniature (Koussevitzky)

Serge Koussevitzky (476. Plano Solo-

Capriccio (Scarlatti) Serenade for the Dail (Debussy)

Vladimir Ilorowitz 1363.

Bird Songs at Eventido

(Barric-Coates)

22925,

Song-

Walter Glyne (Tenor) B3106. Violin Solo-

Dance of the Maidens

Fritz Kreisler 1283,

Fox Trot-

Hello Gorgeous

Buddy Rogers & His Orch. 24001. Song-

Cryin' for the Carolines

Fox Tro-

Rain on the Roof

Nat Shilkret & the Victor Orch,

Song-

Thinkin' of Mary

22925.

Walter Glynne (Tenor) B3108. Violin Solo- Blue Sklen

The Little Silver Ring (Chaminade) John McCormack (Tenor) 1303. 'Cello Solo-

Fond Recollections (Popper) Impromptu (Popper)

Fritz Kreinter 1238.

:

8 p.meal Time & Weather Re part.

"No."

for some kind of communion. Per-yet have a son, and pour out all She made a vague gesture in the haps her conscience stabbed her your substance into making him a direction of the North Pole. Phyllis Kraeuter 4185. that she had occupied too much of man. And when he has arrived at "Georgie was two and a half years All records in the above European the conversation. She said hesitat-that--"

In one of their foul prisons. Ah! Programmes are kindly supplied by Messrs. S. Moutrle & Co.

lingly:

She shrugged her shoulders help-how vile it is that a man should be Cracle Fields (Comediennu) B3403.] The Studio Programme between 5.30| "Did you marry

this did you lessly, and the younger woman said: sent to prison for merely corving & 7.16 p.m. may at any time by re-marry the young man, my dear?" "No, I shall never have a son. Ihis country! Oh, and the condi- placed by a reay from England, if re- It was evident that the question could never, never, love anyone, tions of it, the misery, the torture, ception of the latter happens to be moved the younger woman

pro- but Peter."

the anguish! No, I think for part good.

9.10-10.20 p.m.--A

It was quite apparent that during of the time it was a Ruaafan prison. Programme of soundly. classical music from Z.B.W.'s Library. She put her hand to her throat the last few minutes the women had I can't remember all that,

I was 1. In The Steppes of Central Asia |and whispered almost inaudibly. been drawn more closely together. so distracted. He lost an eye, n

(Beradin)

A link was formed by their common leg, and memory to a large extent. London Symphony Orchestra con- Then, controlling herself with an grief. Neither of them was any He had fever, I know. He hardly

ducted by Albert Contesort, she continued:

longer entirely preoccupied with bar told us anything. And when in the 2. (a) Berceuse (b) Snow Drop

(Gretchaninoff)

"No, no, no. But you may guess individual trouble. The younger and he came back, everything about Nina Koshetz (Soprano) the reason." 3. Eugen Onegin Waitz

"He was killed?"

"Where

was your boy killed, youth, and spirits. He hardly The younger

woman shook her Mrs. -eľ

seemed to remember of care for me. In her effort to appear interested Before he went out he was engaged head and, her voice shaking with tears, said:

sha was handicapped by not know-to Millicent Brander, our vicar's "I do not know. In the war iting her companion's name, and she daughter, as nice a girl as you could to lose touch with plainly did not like to address her wish to meet. He would have no- 'was so easy

four times. as she herself was addressed as "my thing to do with her. And she people. We only met But he swore that he loved me at dear." What did it matter? They was quite willing to marry him in our last meeting. God knows I had drifted together, as they would spite of his missing eye, and, leg, Maria Jeritza (Soprano) loved him. Soon after he went 1 drift apart. A name, or a term and memory. In delirious moments 6. Brahma Symphony No. 3 in developed typhoid fever. I

was meant nothing. Then the older he swore he loved, some other wo played by the Philadelphin

woman made a remark which sur-man he had met on the Continent. terribly ill and sent to England.

(Continued on Puge 12.) When recovered I could find no prised me. trace of him. Whether he had been "My son was not killed. He is

8.3-8.20 p.m.

Daphnis et Chloe-Suite No. 2

(Ravel)

Boston Symphony Orch. under the direction of Serge Krassevitzky

7143/7144.

8.20.9.10 p.m.-A Concert. Piano Solo-.

Staccato Etude (Rubinstein). La Campanella (Paganini-Liszt)

Mischa Levitzki D1489.

Song-

Since First 1 Met Thee

(Watson-Rubinstein)

Sanga my Mother Taught Me

(Macfurren-Dvorak)

Rosa Ponselle. (Soprano) 1319.

String Bass Salo-

(Tschaikowsky) Royal Opera Orchestra Coventi Garden Guest Conductor Eugene

Goossens

4. Final Movt. from Concerto in

E Minor (Chopin) Brailowak and the Berlin State

Opera Orchestra

5. Jean d'Arc (Tschaikowski)

Adieu Forests

Symphony Orchestra.

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