1933-01-05 — Page 7

THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1933.

London Crowds Tote Clubs

Social Punters In The Suburbs

NEVER SEE RACE TRACK

(By IAN COSTER).

J

THE CHINA MAIL

PHILIPPINES

INDEPENDENCE

NOT ASSURED

President Hoover May Veto Bill.

ECONOMIC ISSUES.

Washington, To-day, President Hoover has re- ferred the Philippine In- dependence Bill to the Secre- tary of War for his report. There is a strong indication

of an impending veto. - Reuter.

To-Day's Short Story.

EASTER

By Saki.

EGG

TT was distinctly hard lines for quaint and charming, had been ar Lady Barbara who came of rangad for, but the Burgomaster Igood fighting stock, and was one hoped that the resourceful English of the bravest women of her gen-lady might have something new and eration, that her son should be tasteful to suggest in the way of so undisguisedly a coward. What-loyal gresting.

ever good qualities Lester The Prince was known to the out- Slaggby may have possessed, side world, if at all, as nn ald and he was in some respects fashioned reactionary, combating charming, courage could certain-modern progress, as it were,

R kindly

old gentleman

was

Five hundred people are with serious faces. Most of them In view of the asserted inten-ly never be imputed to him... with A woodon sword; to sprinkled about the acre, of four are middle-aged, but there is one tion of Democratic leaders to ob- As a child he had suffered from s awn people he was known in the middle or the afternoon, young fellow who looks as though tuin prompt approval of the childish timidity, as a boy from un-na Suppressed excitement is in the he has come back to a former bat-compromiso Philippines indepen boyish funk, and as a youth he had with a certain endearing stateliness atmosphere. Most of them sit uttle-ground for, a bout with luck. dence bill in the house and sent it exchanged unreasoning fears for which had nothing of standoffish-

The tape machine stutters. One to the White House, political cir. others which were more formid-nese about it. Knobaltheim young man, with a cigarette in his cles are actively speculating on able from the fact of having a care- anxious to do its best. Lady Barbara mouth, cocks on eye at it.

the Presidential attitude.

fully-thought-out basis. He was discussed the matter with Lester The only semi-official hint as frankly afraid of animals, nervous and one or two acquaintances in to what President Herbert with firearms, and never crossed her little hotel, but ideas were diff- Hoover will do with respect to in- the Channel without mentally com-cult to come by, dependence came with word that paring the numerical proportion of "Might I suggest something to the the White House would carefully life-belts to passengers. On horse-Gaadige Frau?" observe Filipino reaction to the back he seemed to require as many high-cheekboned lady to whom the present measure,

hands as a Hindu god, at least four Englishwoman had spoken once or

emall tables. There is a flurry of talk and some shrill laughter.

Along one length of the place is A partition, broken at regular In- "They're off," he announcer, tervala by closed pigeon-holes; flicking the ash off on the canvas. along the other is a painted scene,

Men straighten up in their seats. like a long-drawn-out theatre back. Their mumbling becomes drop. Through a trellis work one rumbling. can see a bar, deserted by all ex- cept o barmaid.

asked

a sallow,

Four minutes later the man by the tape machine announces the A door in the partition" opens winner, second and third, and then, suddenly and out pops a youth in after a pause, the starting prices.

Opposition To Bill.

for clutching the reins, and two twice, and whom she had set down shirt-sleeves. The talk dies away. Another climbs through the ropes see the following factors which ingly on the neck.

Usually well informed circles more for patting the horse sooth in her mind as probably a Southern

Slov. People get up from the tables and and leisurely writes the winning would tend to weigh presidential

Lady Barbara no longer pretend- "Might I suggest something for crane forward. The youth makes numbers on the blackboard and the judgment against the bill:- ed not to see her son's prevailing the Reception Fest?" she went on, for a board, prominent as a hoard-numbers running in the next race. ing. He sorts out some small

After this 1 made for the L. Stimson and Secretary of the

1.-Secretary of State Henry weakness; with her, asual courage with a certain shy eagerness. Our she faced the knowledge. of it little child here; our baby, we will plates, and then hangs one up. It suburbs. Streatham, I said, la is n number. Then he hangs up bound to bat gaily, blithesomely hitherto expressed views against him none the less.

Treasury Ogden Mille have squarely, and, mother-like, loved two more, one under the others The premises there are palatial,

Continental travel, anywhere

In I

A gasp goes up from the crowd. compared with Blackfriars. There some of the principles incorpor- away from the great tourist tracks,

are astonishment, relief, is a bar downstairs and another ated in the bill. juonation.

upstairs, besides a lounge with 2.-The President might be reluc-was a favoured hobby with Lady Such a nice old lady, by herself easy chairs and couches, Д at one table, holds up a lorgnette luncheon-room (where the club and gazes through it anxiously for lunch costs 1s. 3d.) and, a tea two seconds. Then she lowers it. counter. Her face is possibly a shade

Tea and Tote.

debts.

TO-MORROW'S STORY. -

To-morrow's short story will be "The Lady, or the Tiger," by Frank K. Stock- ton...

Barbara, and. Lester joined her 14 tant near the end of his term to

often as possible. Eastertide approve a programme which neces sarily would have to be fulfilled usually found her at Knobaltheim, after a change in administration. jani upland township in one of those!

small princedoms that make incon- dreas him in little white coat, with In this respect the problem is some-

spicuous freckles, on the map of small wings, as an Easter angel, whiter. She scribbles on a card. The place is full. The betting what similar to the question of war

Central Europe. The day's big race has been won, room, with the partition arranged

and he will carry a large white A long-standing acquaintanceship Easter egg, and inside shall be a not for the trainers, jackeys, book-along one wall, contains about two S.-The President might re- makers, punters who hear the hundred people and the lounge is cognize the uncertainty of whether with the reigning family made her a basket of plover egge, of which the potato-potato of hoofs on the turf full also, Nearly half of them be physically possible under the eyes of her old friend the Burgo it to his Highness as Easter offer- orderly economic transition could personage of due importance in the Prince is so fond, and he shall give and see the surging rush of jare women in afternoon gowns and colours, but for the hundreds of

It is so pretty an iden; we stylish coats, and a sprinkling of terms of the bill, na this question master, and she was anxiously con- ing.

aulted by that worthy thousands of Londoners who, in

has been raised.

on the have seen it done once in Styria." young ones. They all seem: to

momentous The fact that Mr. Hoover ap- Prince

occasion when tho the last few months, have joined know each other; it is a regular

Lady Barbarn locked dubiously at made parently has abandoned all intention tention of coming in person to wooden-faced child of about four

known Tote clubs.

his in the proposed Easter angel, a fair. tea-party. The clubs have sprung up every-

of doing anything further with the Snatches of overheard conversa-

open 籍 annatorium, outside the where-East End, West End, in tion go like this: "Oh, hello Mrs. War debts question would indicate

years old. She had noticed it the that the President' will have more

town. the City and in the suburbs. Halls, Smith. How is Oswald?

day before in the hotel, and won- All the usual items in a dance-rooms, shops, disused churwhat did you do in the 2.30 time to study the question thorough-

prodered rather how such a tow-headed ches, club-rooms have been press- yesterday? Hard luck! Well I'mly than if he would have to devote ramme of welcome, some of them child could belong to such a dark

fatuous and commonplace, others vianged couple as the woman and backing sevens to-day.

Yes, let's more of his time to the debt ques

tion.--Reuter.

her husband; probably, she thought, an adopted baby, especially as the couple were not young.

ed into service.

And

One organisation alone controls have a cup of tea... twenty-one clubs in London and is The affair might almost be a opening fifteen more as soon as it church function. Most of the men can at them up. Membership is look like respectable retired Civil| сіну. One simply fills in a form, Servants. Two tram drivers in giving name, address and occupa uniform come in smoking pipes. Lion, leaves the name of proposer They are greeted like lost friends, and seconder blank, gives the form,

Someone behind the partition with a shilling, to the commission-disturbs the happy buzz of conver nire and in forty-eight hours ᎥᎥ aation with the announcements membership card reaches one

by of the

runners and the riders. post. Then one can bet within the After that there is complete inw, on the main race meetings and silence, except for the clinking of on greyhounds four nights a week, money being counted. Nobody calls. using any branch of the organisa-They're eff!" Streatham dis- misses the gamble from its mind

tion one likes.

"Headquarters," which is not far from Baker Street, is the place and talks Streatham until a young

that I have described. Such

."

Brixton is the same, and Balham and Clapton.

man comes out and marks the num-i bers of placed horses on a black- amenities AG billiards, boxing board. matches and Sunday evening dances are provided here in addi- tion to Tote facilities. The mem bers, during race hours, are a mix-

·ed rather than a mixing lot. Here, lonely at the small, tables, are the types of old ladies who are always .98en (or were) at Continental i Mr. J. M. Martin, of the Colonial casinos. Here are groups of too- Office, who has been acting as Secre smartly-dressed young men, tary to the British Adviser, Kedah, youngish women in expensive fur is in Hong Kong on a holiday. coats, elderly men who might be

News In Brief.

1

:sidesmen on Sundays, shabby One case ench of small-pox, people, furtive-looking people, diphtheria, enteric fever (imported) prosperous people...

and meningitis were notläed to the Health Authorities on Tuesday. :".

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ST. GEORGE'S BALL.

Dance Programme.

The following is the dance pro- will be held at the Peninsula Hotel gramme for St. George's Ball which

to-morrow night.

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TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME.

The following programme will be broadcast to-day from the Hong Extra Fox Trot Play That Hot Guitar on a wavelength of 855 metres Kong Broadcasting Station Z.B.W. 1 Lancers Amelia

2 Waltz Paradiso

4.

Fox Trat Corn Fed Cal

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4 Fox Trot Hummin' To Myself

Fox Trot Lovely Melody

6 Waltz Masquerade

7

Fox Trot Trees

A

8 Fox Trut It's The Darn'dest

Thing 9 Fox Trot It's Hallelujah Time 10 Waltz

Bird Songa at Eventide 11 Fox Trot You're My Everything 12 Fox Trut When Wore Alone

18 Fox Trot Oh That Kiss 14 Waltz

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5-8 p.m. European programme. 5-5.30 p.m.-Band Music.

3

Stealing Thro' the Classics No: 0

Oratorio, etc. (arr. Somera)

Debroy Somers Band DX282, Old Folks at Home and in Foreign

Lands (Roberts) Reg. Band of B., Grenadier Guards

DX210. Overture "1914" A War March

Memory (arr. Somers)

Debroy Somers Band DX292.

5.30-6.30 p. That Naughty Waltz

16 Fox Trot Goopy Gear

18 Fox Trot Tell Me To-night.

GOD SAVE THE KING.

SAILORS" AND SOLDIES' HOME.

Further Contributions to Extension Fund.

"Of course, Gnadige Frau will es- cort the little child up to the Prince," paraued the woman; "but he will be quite good, and do as he is told."

"We hat some pluffers' eggs shall come fresh from Wien," said the] husband.

seemed equally unenthusiastic about } the pretty Idea; Lester was openly discouraging, but when the Bargo- master heard of it he was enchant- jed. The combination of sentiment and plovers' eggs appealed strongly to his Teutonic mind.

The small child and Lady Barbara

On the eventful day the Easter | angel, really quite prettily and quaintly dressed, was a centre of kindly interest to the gala crowd marshalled to receive his Highness.

The mother was unobtrusive' andį Helena May Institute, Garden less fussy than most parents would Road, by kind permission of the have been under the circumstances, Committes and Mrs. R. Banger. merely stipulating that she should The artistes Include Mesdames place the Easter egg herself in the Arnhold and Evelie, Mrs. R.

A relay of the Concert from the

GF

6.30-7 p.m. Variety.

SanAquino.

Monsieur Evelle and Mr. arms that had been carefully school- jed how to hold the precious burden. Then Lady Barbara moved forward, the child marching stolidly and with| grim determination at her side. >İt had been promised cakes and

Waltzes from

(Strauss)

Vienna Selection

London Theatre. Orchestra DX286.

Hold my Hand Vocal, Gems sweeties galore if it gave the egg

(Carter & Gay)

Bow

.{*

Columbia Light Opera Co. DX832. well and truly to the kind, ala

Bell

gentleman who was waiting to rev ceive it. Lester had tried to convey to it, privately that horrible smackings would attend any failure in its share of the proccedings, built it is doubtful if his German caused more than an immediate distress.

Vocal Gems (Carter, Slevier, Sullivan

& Hamilton)

Columbin Light Opera Co. DX232, Love Me Tonight 50.00

Binnte Bale (Soprano) DB970, 20.00 Plano Solo

Piano Medley of Layton & Johnstone

Turner, Layton 9701. Lady Barbara had thoughtfally we provided herself with an emergency

Gambla In Ciphers.

The Rev: E. C. H. Tribbeck grate- All of them take part in this gamble in ciphers in which no The wedding will shortly take fully acknowledges, on behalf of horses! names appear. One buys a place between Mr. Cecil James the Committee of the Sailors & card for twopence, and this is the Merritt, engineer, of 9, Avenue Ed- Soldiers' Home, the following don- key to the runners, and the results ward VII, Shanghai, and Miss Daisy ations to the Extension Fund shown on the board

Evelyn Graham, teacher, residing For a more intimate glimpse of at the Helena May Instituto, Hong Mrs. E. R. Hallifax -the Tate club at work öne must go Kong.

The Rev J. Courtenay Jacobs to the boxing. Ring, at Blackfriars.

The Hong Kong Land In- Here, in the afternoons, two sides The return of notifiable diseases vestment & Agency Co -of the ring are enclosed with a col for the week ended December 31, Ltd: WLNAVIG

lapsible screen, loop-holed with gives the following:-small-pox 6L S. Greenhill, Esq. solling and pay windows. But cases, & deaths; meningitis 4 cases, Christmas Carol Party Col from a ringside seat, one can look 2 deaths; enteric fever. 1 case, 1

lection VIS. -on the inside of the screen, ⠀ death, diphtheria, 1 case; pulmonary

Four or five young men, smoking tuberculosis 45 deaths. pipes and cigarettes, lounge about

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Condon of the Inn in supply of chocolate sweetments;

Will Fyffe (Comedian) DX381, children may sometimes be time- 7 pm Closing Local Stock Quota-servers but they do not encourage Hons, Selected London & New long accounts. As they approach- York

Quotations, etc.ed nearer to the princely dais, Lady

7.15-8

750.00 Scotch.

10.00 I'm the

Aberforlega 41.10 Fand are urgently needed all gifts will be very welcome; they may be sent either, to the S; C. M.- The floor of the ring is littered Mr. B. Paul will speak on "The "Post" or to the Sailors & Soldiers with boxes of chalk, incila, paper; Light of Asia at the usual weekly Home, 22, Hennessy Road. ink and books. Even the swing-public lecture of the Hong Kong All chequos should be made pay- chairs, usually occupied by the Lodge, The Theosophical Society, able to the Treasurer and ecossed battlers, are holding things. Clips 17, Queen's Road Central to-day at Extenal Fund Account of blue and pink tickets are ar- 6 pm. Members of the public are ranged by, the inufia of the selling always welcome to these lectures. windows." Two blackboards, stand-joy-

TOCH MEETING.

ing on the floor of the ring, a tape A Japanese women, named K. machine and a few telephonce Ikasano, 27, living at 102, John Amebting of the Toe I will be complete the equipment

ston Road, Wanchai, was removed held in the Board Room of Mesara,

- The 4th Instalment of a series of Barbara stood discreetly, aside, and Ware by 'courtesy of ward alone, with staggering but The Management of the King's steadfast gait, encouraged by a and the Fox Film Cor murmur of elderly approval poration, the ne

Lester, standing in the front row 8 pitte (Local Time

port), day be of the onlookers, turned to Bean the Chinese Concert crowd for the beaming faces of the 8.3-10-30 pm C - from the Studio,

gawa, happy parents. In a side-road 10.30

30 pm Rugby Mid-day Press which led to the railway station. he

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had been so plausibly eager for the programme batween 6.30 pretty dnsava, koy, be replaced by Frogined it reception of happens to be good.lge in

Deparding The Tefal of the atolid-faced infant walked for

All

What a change le over the to the Government Civil Hospital | Jardine, Matheson'a on Tuesday, prost ringside! No bubble of laughter, in the barly hours of this morning, January ( 10 - The Ray. F. E. Jeora,, chears."- Just now about suffering from the erects of over¡ (""Hobs""), Ford, Toc H Padre, who Afty men and two

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