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„SONGS IN YOUR HEART!

MUSIC IN THE AIR......

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The twinkling toes of the chorus girls ... the sensuous rhythm of the hot-cha tunes! Amidst it all a boy wooing a girl while Broadway watches and calls it "acting"!

TOO MUCH HARMONY

the star of "College Humor,

BING CROSBY JACK OAKIE SKEETS GALLAGHER

HOLLYWOOD'S PRETTIEST

GIRLS

Fascists, Nazis, Et Hoc.tween. Can you imagine Great.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1934.

HERE THERE ENGLAND'S PRETTIEST

and

EVERYWHERE.

The Dollar And Geneva.

The devaluation of the dollar ha had unfortunate consequences for the League of Nations." -

Many scientife and statistical re- search activities carried on at Geneva have been financed for some years by wealthy. American Institu- tions.

WOMEN

PORTSMOUTH'S CLAIM

TO FAME

WHERE LONDONERS LOSE

By

Mary Burdett.)

The value of the dollar in Swiss After roaming up and down Eng-|cinated me, and the majority of francs being now exactly one half land. I believed I have discovered women there belong to an interest its value two years ago, these the town which can boast the pre-ing and un-English type. philanthropic societies have had lest young women in England. In the Middle Ages, when the drastically to curtail their expendi- London? *!!!

cruel› persecutions of the Spanish ture at Geneva.

Wrong London girle are the Inquisition drove the Flemish One American research organisa. epitome of feminine smartness and weavers from their homes in the tion associated with the League-- have nice, ankles, but their com- Netherlands, many sought a refuge the International Institute for the plexions invariably suggest stuffy in the East Coast towns and vil Scientific Organisation of Labour offices and too many late hours. lages of England.

To this day. has already gone out of business. Besides, they all look so terribly numbers of their descendants show

Others may follow.

blase and sophisticated.

junmistakable traces of foreign

I admit I was biased in favour origin.

of London girls when I started my There are girls in Boston and When The Thames Dried Up

search. "Among these teeming Spalding that Rubens or Van Dyck Lord. Desborough told the Au-thousands. must exist the true might have painted. They have thors' Club recently that "everyone beauties of Britain," I said to my the bright, deep-set eyes, the who looks after a river is worried self.

irather widely modelled faces, and Feither by too much water or too

I was mistaken. Although differ- the rasy cheeks that one sees little."

ent. in many particulars, they were to-day in the Netherlands." Whoever was officially in charge of all alike in one essential-their in My travels brought me into coa- the Thames in 1312 must have been different complexions. Even artful tact with many Interesting types, gravely disconcerted by an unpre makeup could not disguise the hut I did not realise that my search cedented drought. It was so severe truth.

was over until I reached Parts. that at low tide Londonéss could

"Where shall I and the peaches mouth..

wade knee-deep from the City to and cream complexion of English! I have been watching those 'gay,

Southwark.

tradition?!!. I asked myself. Not

jtrím young southern women in 10, their monds. I have been studying

A still more phenomenal state of in London; that was clear. affairs happened in 1716.

I found them in Devonshire-the them shopping in Palmerston road, sort of complexions that American walking briskly along the Ladies women envy and the 'exiled English- woman in the East painfully re- various places of amusement in the collects, as she surveys her Own harbour town.

allow skin.

A torrid summer was followed by audden gale from the W.S.W This blew the remaining water in the tidal Thames out to sen.

People walked almost dry-shod across the bed of the river.

Your Daily Smile.

THOSE PAPERSICA

Mlle. disporting themselves at

to

These Devon girls have that So, after due fasting and intense.

have decided "milkmaid complexion" of poster meditation, I fame. Perhaps the moist, mild cil-award the palm to Portsmouth foi mata contributes to their charm. possessing the prettiest girls in have seen the same kind of com-

England.

The typical Porteraouth girl has plexion, in some West of Ireland. beauties.

that fresh, out-of-the-bandbox looke Devanshire Damsels}{}~

which is so compellingly attractive, [The sea breezes have whipped the

ooke the picture of health. She

I wish that I could claim for

green shirts-the to-any one of the bistant gas-The following day a newspaper Exeter or Plymouth the privilege colour into her cheeks, so that she

瞻

Wrecked se

is just as chic as her London cou-

Her com

complexions but the prettiest girls In England.

ain, withopt possessing that bored Here is the truth pavarnished: and blase expression. The charge was one of drunken The figures of these Devon damsele plexion is good, her figure slim and understands suggest a too-liberal diet of jam supple, and she surely "And what evidence have you to and cream teas. So breathing a

the art of make-up.

леня,

lini's calibre was available it is Joist humble opinion-and we are not alone in that opinion that Hong Kong, Wednesday, March 7, 1934 Great Britain might do worse|

than give him the job. But Mussolinis are few and far be Britain, with her sound and A University professor, invited to J highly developed political in-address, a club meeting, chose as Black shirts, brown shirts stinet handing over her destinies is subject: "Need of Education.” blue shirts.

reported. "Professor's apotheosis of this necessary and bags, newspaper magnates, over-headline in general retiring garment is strung intelligensia, lime-lighters Speech Shows Nerd of Education of possessing not merely the best

themselves the salient fact in our present who at present see

in the role. If ever the day! day political developments. Iti appears that to many our deca-comes. and God forbid it that the, Old Country has so fallen'] dent civilisation in this the last from its high estate as to need a resource can only be saved by Dictator, the day will bring forth offer, constable," and the msgisigh over this problem of excess I insist that the young women of Ishirts. They take their shirts the man. But that day is not rate. "except that you found the weight, I regretfully turned my Portsmouth are the prettiest in

seriously. Far from the tumult yet. But do ht run away with prisoner lying complacently in a back on Devon.

England... welthe idea that a dictatorship in horse trough and the shouting as we are

In the public The brunette beauties of the

And I refuse to be contradicted is impossible. inay find it difficult so to do, but Great Brital

square?"

Cornish Riviera caught my even by the Royal Navy... when we read that in all good Nothing is impossible to even the

"This, your worship," said the imagination. They have complex and democratic policeman, producing an empty personalities and keep one guess- BOARD OF EDUCATION faith the British parliament pro- most stable poses to pass a law banning the country in this crisis, these days whisky bottle. "It was floating being." Their Celtic blood, has been What lside him, and Inside it was. the suffused with a Spanish strain; for wearing of distinctive shirts by of "sturm und drang."

about Roosevelt, and a loudly. political parties we sit up

message, Wrecked off Bull's Head; history tells us that when the gal- and

vaunted pure democracy being one survivor."

leons of the Spanish Armada were take notice. Shirts, we say, are governed by a President who has

wrecked on the Cornish coast many no longer a subject for humour- for all practical purposes a dicta-"America Faces Drink Shortage ists. We must look into the tor's powers? And history tells Imatter, under the shirts in fact,jus that for hundreds of years and find out the why of this sud-England was governed and thriv den craze for uniforms, the ed under a dictatorship, for what

It was the eve of the party, and who would not look amiss in the The 91st Meeting of the Board wherefore of this rash of varie else were the Tudor Kings? What gated underwear afflicting the else even was: Elizabeth, what young Bobby was constantly think streets of sunny Seville or Madrid. of Education was hold on Tuesday, Thus history and human nature March 6 at 3 o'clock. Members nations. "Uniforms," says the else was Robert the Bruce and g of joys to come,

"Oh, mum," he said, "I do feel have combined to produce an un-present were - But these great McGarva, "are a curse, in-the early Stuarts 7

so excited!"

usual and beautiful physical type, Director of Education-Mr, N. "Excited, dear,” sald his mother, vented by the Kaiser, the Devil, were all strong-minded, clear-

Gloucester is a city of quaint old- L. Smith, B.A., (Chairman), Sanlor headed personalities, who knew and Baden Powell;" which seems what they wanted, and got it realising the cause. "What is ex-world charm; and this atmosphere Inspector of English Schools Mr. rather unfair to his satanic ma-That what they wanted was for

cited?"

Beer to-day and gone to-morrow,

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That Funny Feeling

jesty. The Kaiser put all Ger the good of their country a* "Why," said the boy, “It's being many into uniforms, and the well as for their own glorifica in a hurry all over." Chief Scout all the rest of the tion can hardly, at least as a world. Once a Boy Scout you're general proposition, be justly de- never happy unless sporting a nied. «For a hundred years and uniform. I own up, it's the kilt more a free democracy has been that keeps me in the Volim the most lauded form of govern-

of the survivors intermarried with the inhabitants.

That surely must be why one sees in. Cornwall types of women

MEETING

Mr. Li Tsz Fong. Welcomed.

TWO RESOLUTIONS CARRIED

is reflected in the personality of Ita] A. R. Sutherland, M.A., Senfor In- women. They are charming, con- spector of Vernacular Schools---. servative, and dress quietly." Al-Mr. Y. P, Law, B.A., Mr. A. el most two quietly, They are all Arculli, Rev. Fr. Byrne, SJ. Ph.D. cast in the same mould, but their Captain P. S. Cannon, M.A, A‚EC,. clever lack of "infinite variety" seems to Mr. L. D'Almada e Castro, Jr., Bir blend with their dignified sur ww. Hornell, Kt CLE, MA, roundings.

| LG.D., Mr. Li Taz Fong, Very Rev. Yet, unless their looks mislead As Swann, H.A. D.8.C. Hon. Mr. me, many of these, Gloucester S. WT. OBE, LID, and Kr.- A pretty girl had a corpulent gentlewomen are of Welsh extrap B. Wylie

THEY DON'TE "But I want to marry

"Clever men don't ̧marry.”

Help!

teers. Since the War the world ment, the form aimed at by re- has suffered from a spate of die farmers in countries that- knew tators, most of them pretty poor it not. But the stock of demo- samples. Mussolini was the cracy has suffered a bad slump suitor. The stout lover went on his tion. In that case, I wonder what The Chairman welcomed Mr. L first and so far the only out of late years, and for that demo- knees to propose in the old-Celtic Ares smoulder heneath Tax Fong who had been appointed) standing success, though Hitler eracy itself is to blame. For fashioned manner. Even this ro-idemure exterior? How conflicting to the Board in place, of Mr. E. & looks like running a good second, democracy as we now know it is mantle attitude, however, did not to possess a pagan temperament Woo, LIL resigned, But then Mussolini fa a great democracy-run to seed, top-soften the girl, and she promptly and a cathedral-elty conscience! The following resolutions RDS-

Where are the pretty girls of carried!-Mak and good man, and will rank in heavy, asking for a fall. Univer-refused him.

Harrogate?

(a) That this Board reco I did not notice many on the the inclusion of the Maryknoll Stray, (the common), or in the Convent School, Kowloon, in principal shopping centres; al- the list of Grant-in-Aid though there were afately dowa- Schools and asks that gers and dignified matrons in

Estimates for 1985 should ine clude a sum of $10,000 for this ритрове.",

history with Cromwell, Napo-sal suffrage has killed it, as it "Well, Marie," said the fat one, lepn, Peter of Russia. A great would kill any state not owning still on his knees," "If you'll not ac psychologist, a great adminisan universally educated prole-cept my offer you might at least trator, a great economist. Even tarist. As democracy is to-day help me up." In his selection of a uniform he it means government by the ill- showed his flair for finance. He terate, the non-thinkers, the Facts You Did Not saw-his little army without acaally led Government by the

Know. uniform, and an aridy without a wind-bags, leading the born-tired distinctive dress is unthinkable, the unfortunate, the jobless, the Operated by pressing a bulb, 17, different places

rabble under arms They had discontented, the fellures the no war chest to fell back on, but flappers to the ballet box and so new device fite the top of a bottle tightly and converts it into a siphon. every man in the nature of their half-baked represent things had a shirt. Bo shirts it to victory at the polls and to po was, black shirta, for money,Tom Hood Song of the

new

I was more successful in other Yorkshire towns. – Two such wide;

Læsis presented ag

speal mens of English

do not rememi

tool

To increa the number of als

In distant' Cüi

ing

tlitical power, Well may the Halti's exports of coffos in June The brain weary and reuete old men were 114 per cent, greater than the who rule Great Britain's destin-one average for the last nine years. ntó les to-day fear the youth of the country taking to uniform. They kee it as the writing

(b) "That Government be, requests ed to approve of the usual Grant-in-Alid to the Branch School of he Diocesan Girls” Echool at Kowloon

to include $1,000 Int Estimates for 1985.0

"WILLIAM TELLE TALKIE

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