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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1933.

COMMERCIAL

SECRETARY

FOR COLONY

Shanghai Eulogizes Mr. G. C. Pelham.

"OFFICER OF OUTSTANDING

ABILITY"

CHICAGO WAR ON ART & DRAMA

GANGSTERS

Police And Judges Work Overtime.

NEW DEAL FOR THOSE WHO BREAK LAW.

Chicago, "Aug. 17.

The City of Chicago, outraged |

SEQUEL TO MUSIC

HALL PLAY.

Lord Chamberlain's Objection.

THE CHINA MAIL.

Vesta Tilley To Go

On "Memory Tour"

"There Is No Variety As, France. There was a suspicion of

I Know It."

SCENES OF FORMER TRIUMPHS

glamorous,

"Vesta Tilley

a tear in her ere as she thought of

And

her gallery girls of long ago.

"Just listen to this. she read from a letter bearing the Birmingham postmark:

-- "My Darling Vesta,-You do not know me, but I remem- ber you coming to Birmingham - when you were only fourteen, and I've adored you ever since

end the

LUCKY

DEVILS

INTERPOLATIONS BY COMEDIANS

Summonses were heard at West- The British Chamber of Com- merce Journal of Shanghai states: at a new outbreak of gangster minster recently against Albert V.

activities and by the slaying of Vasco, manager of the Victoria Pa-glorious, inimitable Vesta. It is 14 Mr. George Clinton Pelham, who-

seven months, to-day declared lace Theatre of Varieties, 'Victoria, years since last her name topped the has been attached to the office of its first actual war on the under S. W., and the Victoria Palace Co. bills and how she is coming back. H.M. Commercial Counsellor of world that has held the city in Ltd., at the fnstance of the Dires-Going on "a tour of memories" for through the scenes of her triumphs,

I'm getting old now, and Legation at Shanghai has been ap-its grip since the beginning of tor of Public Prosecutions,

prohibition.

causing to be acted a certain part but alas! not on the boards," writes my children are all grown up. pointed Commercial Secretary,

but I can still sing the old Heads of the police depart-in a stage play called "The Signal-a correspondent in the Singapore

songs.. Hong Kong.

ment, aldermen, representatives man's Daughter" which had not Free Press.

Still beautiful, for her health's Vesta's eyes were shining as she The "Journal" extends to Mr. of the City Attorney's office and been allowed by the Lord Chamber-

sake Vesta has to live abroad most smiled at Sir Walter, who sat beside serious G. C. Pelham its wholehearted con-others met in a

con-lain. ference and, after mapping war

Mr. Cairns imposed a penalty or of the year. She is the wife of Sir her. "Isn't that lovely she gratulations on his appointment as plans, requested the judges of all £25 and £5. 56. costs on both the Walter de Froce, whom she married whispered.

"I have no favourite place to seek Commercial Secretary in Hong courts to give up their vacations manager and the company, and 43 years ago, and they have a lovely

for memories on this, sentimental] Kong, at the same time much re- or at least postpone them and added: "May I express my appre-villa on the Riviera.

ciation of the action of the Lord Lady de Frece smiled a little sadly tour. I have always been so grets his departure from Shanghai, clear the calendar.

This request, was accepted im Chamberlain in this matter, and in when she was asked if she would like lucky, everyone has wekomed me

wherever I have gone, but. where, during the past year in the mediately by the judges and the deciding that the public shall be to go back to the halls. office of H.M. Commercial Counsel-police then announced that a spared these interpolations."

"I'd just love to," she confessed should I admit it? if anything lor of Legation, he has not only clear calendar would be neces- Mr. Lawson Walton, prosecuting, simply. "After all. the boards were perhaps there is a soft corner in my were "taken home to me; I was only four years heart for Birmingham. Oh, what made a host of friends in the com- sary soon because the gaols are said the proceedings

under the Theatre Act of 1848. In old when I first appeared.. but time I had there! It has "such. mercial community, but as shown to be filled.

The judges ordered the trials consequence of a complaint a re-she shook her heard slowly-happy memories for me." a thorough knowledge of the many of seven men and one wontan ac in went to the Victoris Palace on my health won't let me; another,

London's Welcome. presentative of the Lord Chamber-"it's quite impossible. One thing,

It was lovely to see Sir Walter dificult questions with which ne has cused of murder to begin April 24. There was being enact-where are the music-halls now? de Frece's pride in his still beautiful had to deal. It is no doubt plati-immediately.. Prosecuting at-

"Either closed, or else turned into wife. Ludinous, to say fast Shanghai's torneys declared that they were ed on the stage a short play, "The

Jeinemas, most of them; while "And Blackpool, my dear," he Signalman's Daughter." loss is Hong Kong's gain, but it is ready and no excuses will be ac-.

cepted from the defendants who Chamberlain, but it was

It had been licensed by the Lord variety to-day undeniably true.

Lady de Frece broke in. (That used to be his old KOMOR found made a funny little grimace and Parliamentary constituency), "They Shanghai will nave lost and Hong have had more than ample time that the script of the play in three shrugged her siender shoulders. put the red carpet on the station Kong will have gained an officer of to prepare their cases. outstanding ability. The Donour

"There's going to be a new deal important items was not adhered There is no variety now," she de- platform when we go to Blackpool!"

he said.

worthy as he is taking up a post ment announced. The judges said. which is usually reserved for more they would order night court ses- senior men.

conferred upon aim is more note-for gangsters." the police depart never have been passed.

to. What was substituted would clared; "not as I knew it."

Dear Old Friend.

•

of women

"Indeed," he went on, "what a | Mr. W. G. R. Saunders, said he "What fun it would be to tour the wonderful welcome we had at Vic- was instructed to express defen-old halis again! But... what toria the other night! How people sions it necessary and the police dants' profound regret that unau-would you? No! It can only be a knew we were coming I simply do The "Journal" wishes him every jhave agreed to work extra hours. muccess in his new sphere and can The sudden dwindling of profits,

thorised interpolations should have tour of memories. Still, I have a lot not know-we are private people assure the commercial interests in from the illicit liquor business has been made. No authority what- of things worth remembering, you now, remember, both retired-but

fever was given for them. Imme-know, and shall enjoy so much see-there were hundreds they have in Mr. force the gangsters to branch out diately the attention of the man-ing old friends Hong Kong that

in Manchester, cheering and crying "Good old Pelham a man whose clear think-jand their operations have been ex-

Vesta!" ing will be a great asset and whose tended into important industries and ager and the company was called Birmingham, Liverpool, Bradford,

Two years ago Vesta Tilley was general disposition will make for even to the labour unions. Kid-to the objection of the Lord Cham-Edinburgh, Glasgow, Newcastle, and

gravely in Mentone. So I that him many friends.

nappings have increased and gang stopped.

berlain the use of the words was places like that.

"I shall go to all the old theatres her life was despaired of, and the sters are now fighting the police; more in the open.-United Press.

Mr. Cairns: Do I understand that that are open. There will only be long struggle for health turned her the particular artists Interpolated time for a fleeting glimpse-but it glorious hair snowy white.

will be well worth while.

"Her appearance was so chang-) Mr. Saunder: "Those are my in- "I still love the real theatre, ored," Sir Walter said quietly "that I struction-interpolated entirely by course, and go just as often as I doubted if any of her old friends the comedians themselves and ab can; yet things have changed a lot would know her. Back in London, months later, we went to the thea-

WHY ARE BLONDES?

An Inherited Molecule Probable Cause.

INTERESTING THEORY ADVANCED.

BORROWED PLUMES LEAD TO LOSS.

Belle Of Ball In Her Mistress's Clothes.

£700 BROOCH DISAPPEARS

Paris.

these words?

solutely unauthorised.

"FILTHY INNUENDO."

since the old days.

*The stage door, for instance, is a tre, and as I followed. Vesta into Mr. Cairns: It seems lamen-much nicer place than it used to be the stalls we happened to look up. table that in a place of public en-all the old lizards, the crutch Immediately there was a mighty tertainment the average decent eland tooth-pick brigade-have gone, Tilley! Good old Vests!

roar from the gallery. "Vesta tizen should have filthy innuendo thank goodness! But the gallery

Give us served out. Numbers of decent girls, oh yes, they are still the same a song. Vesta!'"** people I know will not patronise as ever, still

as faithful, still a5 What wonderful loyalty to an old "I was simply amazed," he said. some places of entertainment in the loyal. How I love them all!

favourite West-end without first making in "Fourteen years... ." Lady de

and I doubted if The adventures of the little coun- quiries as to the performance being Frece mused awhile. It's a long they would know her!” by girl from Brittany who went to distinctly clean,

time. I often wonder why people the local dance halls, wearing the The magistrate also remarked are still BO wonderfully kind. Do gowns and jewels of her aristocratic that he failed to see where the hu-you know, hardly a day passes with- All characteristics which people confided to the police that she had had quoted. He hoped the man- I've never seen.

mistress, came to light when she mour came in the lines counsel fout a lovely letter from some friend derive from their parents are be. lieved to be controlled by tiny parts worth £700.

lost a diamond and platinum brooch ager would see that the woman and cles known S "genes," and tho

man who interpolated that filth in- theory that these genes are "role!

Chicago, Illinois. What makes you tall or short, blonde or brunette, blue-eyed or brown-eyed. Probably it is A bundle of atoms known as a "mole cule" which you inherited from

your parents.

"My Darling Yesla" "Look! These arrived this morn- From her nome at Ploermel, in to the play would be black-listed ing. They've followed us from Brittany, Marie le Cloarec came to and would not be employed for a cules," or bundles of atoms, was ad-Paris at the age of 17, a few months time after having put the theatre 300GS. FOR SICKERT

vanced before the American Asso-i ciation for the Advancement of Science recently.

ago. She entered the service

of in such a position.

the Buronne de Larquesse-Tremeur, Mr. Vasco, in reply to the magis- "Genes," or combinations of them extent that she was given charge of was in no way a party to the Inter-

soon won her confidence to such an trate, assured the Court that hej are believed to control inheritance all her mistress's keys. by being passed on from generation

polation. About *

fortnight ago the

near

AMERICAN PLAY FAILS IN LONDON

PICTURE.

Bedford Music Hall

to generation through human gerin Barenne went away on a visit. The

Notwithstanding its size (over cells.

|6ft. high) one of the music-hall temptation to deck herself in thei When a short man appears in af

canvases by Richard Sickert, gorgeous dresses and even the race of tall people, or a brunette, jewels left in ner chargé proved too

A.R.A., "The New Bedford," turns up in a family that has been much for Marle le Cloarce. And

realised as much as 300gs, re- blonde for generations, it is believed soon she was a conspicuous if some-

London.cently at Christie's. In the to be caused by a change or "mutawhat incongruous

Andre Charlot's latest stage terms of the profession this was tion" in the particular "Genes" that dance-halls

figure in the venture, The Day I Forgot," a "hearty encore," because when or hair colour-Suresnes.

the Pont control height

de starring the American actress, the picture appeared in 1927 it Reuter.

Dorothy Hall, closed recently was greeted with a winning bid Only when she returned home after three performances. It was of 180gs. after a triumphant evening to find probably one of the most spect As the leader of the Camden that one of the baronne's most acular failures West End London Group, the painter saw to it that did she realise the seriousness of her "I feel heartbroken," said Misa and one of his auction successes valuable brooches had disappeared has known. “-

he should delineate local scenes, offence; now the police are trying Hall, who crossed the ocean to was in 1980.when his composi to find out whether the brooch was play in the production here. tion of "The Old Bedford" with jstolen or lost.--Reuter.

am going back to America imme those favourites, Joe Haynes and diately. We were all so sure of "Little Dot," on the boards had its success that we decided to a very good gallery, in fetching bring it straight to London In-620gs

جميع

REMOVING HUMAN REMAINS.

Tung Wah Hospital Charge. Five Chinese yesterday afternoon appeared before Mr. W. Schofield at the Central Magistracy charged On remund with conspiracy defraud the Tung Wah Hospital authorities, by claim-j ing to have exhumed 23,194 sets of human remains, whereas they

had only exhumed 11,446.

to

SCIENCE APPROVES SPANKING.

Small Children Cannot Be Reasoned With,

for it.

stead of putting it on in New When London music-halls be- York. And this is the result come antiquities, these Sickert The play had a brief tryout pictures will probably have a in Philadelphia before coming further value. here.

SHORTHAND BAFFLES STORM TROOPS

Another large Sickert picture, painted after the outbreak of war in 1914, also appeared. Entitled "Soldiers of King Albert the Ready, this pictorial tribute to Belgium was bought by a pri-

220gs,

"Secret" Document Seized By vate collector, Mr. Emmanuel, at

Naziz

JUDGE WRITES MUSICAL PLAT

Iowa City, Iowa. The good sound spanking is ap The defendants were Chan Kau, proved by Dr. Esther Richards, mortuary attendant, Wong Kwai-Professor of Psychiatry at John chi, contractor, Hul Cheung, Hopkins University. She says Inbourer, Siu Chan labourer, and that science has found no substitute Cheng Tuk, coffin bearer.

Mr. F. X. D'Almada, senior, ap- "If you find that your child has Nasl storm troopers arrested peared for the second, third and scattered the contents of the Ice 16-year-old Jewish schoolboy In the Judge Hargreaves, the County fourth defendants, while Mr. C. Y box over the kitchen floor, give him streets of a amall Thuringian town, Court judge and lawn tennis player.. Kwan represented the fifth defen sound spanking" she said in ad-and took him to their barracks for has broken new felds with a musical dant. The contractor appeared dressing the Seventh Annual Conexamination." play, He has sent it to Hr. Cochran on bail

ference of Child Welfare

In his satchal, they found a doen- and now awaits hla decision.

Berlin

Mr. Lo said the case arose out There is no uza” she added, "try- ment covered with hieroglyphics. It is called "The Rainbow Ring of building operations at Tin Sining to reason with a small child. They decided that it must be but it has nothing to do Kong, Pokfulam, the new site of the The child will listen because he has secret report in Hebrew, ROBE Įtennis players waiting for Government Civil Hospital [nothing better to do, but it is time An expert was called. He

After the coffin bearer had given wasted in telling him why he should covered that the boy was only trying beli evidence, the case was adjourned, or should not do a thing."-Reuter, to learn shorthand Reuter,

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KOMOR

HONG KONG

New goods arrived.

From 50 cts. to $5,000.

Every article marked

in plain figures.

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