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"RIDAY, MARCH 16, 1934.

THE CH

HELENA MAY

ENTERTAINMENT GREAT SUCCESS

Para

Sydney West's Fine Cardinal Wolsey.

MR. BRAZIER CREAGH EXCELS IN TWO ROLES

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Variety was the keynote of the Dramatic Entertainment given at; the Helena May Institute last night, the players treating crowded house to a selection from Shakes- peare, a rollicing fares, and finally a combined psychologkal study and thriller.

The scene

chosen from Shaken. peare was Cardinal Wolsey's fare well to Thomas Cromwell. Mr. Sydney West gave a very masterful interpretation of the character of Wolsey, and, right from the com- manding opening words: "Fare well," a long farewell to all my greatness," to his summing up of his career-"Had I served my God

Reunited in the romantic Orient, the honeymooning divania meet one of the stars of the Japanese stage, Osse Balk, famous 8-year-old female impersonator. Shown at the meeting, left: to right, are Ono Baik, in character, the Princess, formerly Miss Bar- bara Hutton, Woolworth heiress, and Prince Mdivaal,

but half as well as I have served CHINESE AIR ADVISER

my King." he was the stricken

Cardinal that Shakespeare had plc- tured. Mr. E. Brazier-Creagh, 'as Cromwell. treated the supporting

FOR EUROPE

part of this scene in an almost pro-Canton Party Due Here

fessional manner.

Miss Una Pryn, Mrs. Hope Sles- sor, and Miss Evelyn Gray as the Post Office girls in Rowland Per- twee's one-act force "Postal Or ders," were all that was to be ex pected of the most trying of those much-maligned civil servants, while Miss Bee Walker and Mr. Gerald Nigel, as the quarreling lovers, were splendid.

On Thursday.

EUROPEAN LADY FINED $5.

Causes Obstruction

VISITING AMERICA FIRST

Reports from Canton recently stated that the Canton Air Force Commander-in-Chief, Mr. Huang Kuangaul, together with four others, is leaving Chine for un Europan tour under the Canton minutes. Provincial Government.

Mr. W. Robertson acted remark ably well as the Judge in the drama tic fragment "In Port." and Mr.

The party will arrive in the Sydney West. as the haggand, es caped convict, would never have Colony from Canton next Thursday been recognised as the polished and will leave here on Saturday, by Cardinal Walsey in the first item. the as President Coolidge for the Mr. E. Brazier-Creagh's handling United States.

With Car.

Personal Pars.

Ta-day's Short Story.

IL

The Hazard Of

The Spanish Horses

By G. B Stern.

TNDOUBTEDLY Rudolf friends who were sitting a box.

Under had had too the little Hot Dog, all semi-into-

much champagne that night at xicated, were also rather tragic the Little Hot Dog. If he had not survivala. A few years before, ordered that fifth bottle he would they had falloped behind the car- never have bet Count von Dras riage of old Emperor Franz; For selburg that he would-break into danced, magnificent in uniform of the stables of the Spanish horses blue and allver, at the stately Im and ride one of them to Ebeldorf. perial balls.

a village some ten miles from Vienna, and back. If he had not dead, the Empire torn to -frag; Now, when the Emperor wat ordered that fifth bottle there menta, the army a shadow, the Hof- would have no bet and no atory-burg tenanted by disdainful ghosts As it is well, at all events, the and shabby caretakers, they could management of the Little Hot find nothing better to do than to Dog benefitted by some 300,000 forget the splendours of the past kronen, of which at least 60 per for an hour or two, by the help of cent. must have been sheer pro the widow Clicquot, and the enter ft.

The Spanish horses-some thirty And they were, all of them in that tainment provided at a cabaret, splendid white Arabs, and one dangerous inflammable, díston- brown-are so called because they tented mood, which came of having are trained and equipped in the Spanish manner. For on the model of the court of Spain the Austrian emperors founded much of" their OWN stiff code of ceremonial. These horses were once the

pro-

TO-MORROW'S STORY.

To-morrow's story will be The 18th Flaw," by W. J. Makin.

Summoned for causing obstruction|perty of the Emperor of Austria, with her private car, No. 2046, in and were ridden only by members of Queen's Road Central, Mra. J. Hthe Imperial family. Jesson was fined $5, by Mr. E. Wif you pay 10,000 kronen; lovely nothing left to do, and no Ideals to

You can see them in their stalls,] Hamilton at the Central Magistracy things, with coats of shining natin live for. It was a pity that such this morning.

Mr. H. J. Armstrong, who apTheir dark eyes still flash fire, and fine and carriage a breeding", no and soft black velvet muzzles personable youngsters, showing In peared for Mrs. Jesson stated that their fine-drawn legs remind you less distinguished than that of the defendant called on her doctor, and was unavoidably detained

irresistibly of the tapering spars of Spanish horses, should be wasted for 20

a racing yacht leaning before the on evenings of alternative quarrel- wind.

ling and maudlin recollection. They are still one of the sights lof Vienna; and every morning they cular, were a handsome pair, un- The Beckendorf twins, in parti- fare cantered round the tan-covered cannily like each other except in Prominent among the passenger door of the riding-school of the expression, for Fritz was dreamy on board the Dollar Liner President Hofburs. There is something tra- where Rudolf was reckless. When Monroe which arrived in Hong Kong gically futile about these horses, ever they looked at Von Drasselburg, to-day is Mrs. Frederick Zimmer-still in their royal stable, yet with however, you had not even that Ohio manufacturer, and well known tragic as all, the symbols of van for then their faces were stamped in social circles there. She is makished pomp and majesty that still equally with haughty: dislike; Al- ling her sixth cruise around the strew Vienna-once the chief city brecht Von Drasselburg wAL E

world, having visited nearly every of an empire, now the bourgeois braggart who did not perform

capital of a minor republic.

Rudolf Beckendorf, his twin his brother, "when you jumped on "Do you remember, Rudolf," said Among the passengers of the brother Fritz, the Count Von Draind off the mess table one Christ Dollar Liner which arrived in Hong selburg, and two or three of their mas night, on that chestnut mare Kong to-day were Mrs. Waldo Hut- chins and her daughter Miss Mar-

of yours?" garet Hutchins; who is an amateur artist of note and has made many pro- excellent sketches of the ports visit-

of the part of the nervous and ex- Aviation will be expecially studied citable butler, provided the neces by the party in the various coun-man, wife of a prominent Cleveland, never as Archduke to ride them slight help in telling them apart, sary tension to make this dramatic tries they viaft. interlude a reality.

Altogether the whole entertain- ment was on a very high standard, and the incidental music, played by Mrs. M. H. McAulay, AT,C,L., in- troduced the finish required to make the performance a complete success.

LARGE CROWDS AT TRADE SHIP. Unkai Maru Leaving On Sunday,

JAPANESE TRADE EXHIBITION.

On Unkai Maru To-day.

country.

LOCAL ESTATES

Former. Resident Leaves $389,900.:

Probate of the will of Edmund

"Poon! Beckendorf couldn't jump a hurdle," angered Von Drasse)- An chibition of Japanese

borg. "He rides like 'a' Prussian.” ducts will commence to-day on boarded.

"If I ride. like a Prussian, you the a.a. Unkai Maru, No. 3, which

ride Hike a is lying alongside the Osaka Shohen.

a Polish tallor, Rudolf A well-known personality in the Kaisha wharf, Connaught Roadfall Industry, Mr. Joseph L. Davidson,,

snarled in reply: "You won't find Central.

a horse In all Vienna that I can't' The 8.5. Unka Maru No. 3, of

was among he passengers of the Leslie May, late of "Corfu House":"I know of thirty-one horses you

ride," the Hokkaido

Under the auspices of the Hok-Dollar Liner when she arrived in Arnison Road, Dust Molesey, Surrey, Trade Mission tokaido South Sea Trade Association | Hong Kong to-day, the south seas, was to-day inspect- and supported by the Prefectural

who died on December 4, 1982, "T ride any and all of them up

daren't ride!" ed by large numbers of Chinese Government of Hokkaido, the trade

leaving local estate valued at $389,-and down this staircase, yes, and merchants as she lay alongside the ship is making a tour of Formoss. gether with

Mr. and Mrs. Hu Tiao-yen, to-900, has beer granted to Mr. C. Bump them into a box from the Osaka Shosen Kaisha wharf In South China and the Philippine Generals Taai Ting-kai and Chen

the two sons of Brown, attorney.. Islands, louching at Keelung, Hong Ming-shu are leaving for Europe at were erect-Kong, Manila, Iloilo and Cebu.

the

6 p.m. to-day by the sà. Conte Verdo.

Connaught Road Central.

Exhibiting counters ed in the foreward holda of whip on which large assortments of argicultural, marine, and Indus- trist products were displayed mar- ine products were, however, more

CHINESE ABBOTS WILL

dancing floor!?

Til bet you Afty million to ten you won't break Into the Spanish An Abbot of a Monastery in the and ride him to Ebeldorf - and, atables, saddle one of the horses,

10, 1992, left local estate valued at

$5,700.

"Done, and to-night cried Letters of administration Rudolf, shaking off his brother's The Consulate General for Peru The vessel will leave Hong Kong has been removed from 80 Mody cane o. meningitis were the only the new Abbot of the Ching Shan

One case of small-pox, and one have been granted to Shik Fat-ho, restraining hand. On Sunday morning for Manila, Road to No. 1 Tramway Path, Vic-two cases of notifiable diseasen Monastery, at Foo Man. The de Iloilo and Cebu, and will return torie. direct to Japan..

LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES New Territories, who died on April back.

In evidence.

THE N. ATLANTIC SHIPPING BILL

reported in the Colony during the ceased's name was Chan Chun-ling, 24 hours ended yesterday,

alias Chan Kat-choung.

drank than the others, he could not Fritz flushed a hot acarlet, Lesa bear the idea that Rudolf might The mission comprises 30 mem-

The Empress of Britain, luxury

make a fool of himself in Von bers, representatives of the Pre-liner on her second world tour, is:

Drasselburg's' fectural Government, under the due here at daylight to-morrow. School. (Wang

The pupils of the Normal Guide

FRENCH SUBJECTS $1,700

eyes, But to steal ole of the Spanish horses-It was leadership of Mr. Takawe Nebashi. She will remain until Wednesday Waterloo Road, Kowloon, will give Former Frosecutor for the French late, to treat the whole bet as a

Ying College),

a mad undertaking. He tried, too, morning.

a concert at the Prince's Theatre, Republic at Haiphong, Victor Paul joke, Nathan Road, on Sunday, commenc Harie France, died on Oct, 28, 1932, wiped him out with a cold glance Charged with driving his car in ing at 9 am

Eugene Dudlho, of, Oloron, Sainte- But Yon: Drasselburg, merely Prince Edward Road on December N (Cantinued from Page 1) 17, without due care or caution, Suffering from injuries to his letters of administration have been twenty minutes to drive down to leaving local estate value at $1,700. It will not take me longer than said that he had since had the op-Lee, at the Kowloon Magistracy, falling from the gangway into the

Mr. S." F. Ip was fined $25 by Mr. head and right leg, caused by granted to Mr. G., G; N. Tinson, portunity of reading press reports yesterday afternoon. Bis Worship hold of Lighter No. 77, Chan Yat- $125 EMBEZZLEMENT indicating that the International further recommended that his If-cho, aged 22, a boat coolic, was Mercantile Marine Company; were cence be suspended for six months. admitted to the Kowloon Hospital contemplating action against the White Star Merger.

He added that the Board of The Oceanie Company had been authoritatively advised that they might legally implement their part of the merger schemes without the consent of

The hearing against Cheung Po- kung, Fong Kwai and Yu Chung,

yesterday.

Found on the staircase of NG..

o

FROM NAAFL Defendant Remanded

Charged with the embezzlement

the Rother Adler in Rapaport's

four o'clock Beckendorf. Lasloy, car; we will expect you there at will you remain in Vienna, outside] the-Hofburg, to time the hour of his return? Don't trouble to dis-

mount, Rudolf, just tap with your crop—I will put cotton-wool in Hal hal ears and save myself fifty million)

all unemployed; who were charged 402 Hennessy Road in an un sound with attempted robbery at 60, Lock mental condition, Wong Chof-ase, of $125 from the Naval, Army and. hart Road on March 8, was ad- Chinese wom of journed by Mr. S. Balfour at the from Tam Bhul, was adm, fed to ursmployed, wii rep

no fixed abode, Air Force Institute: Wong Ba-kit Central Magistracy yesterday, the Mental Asylum, Government hours in police cust

anded for | Civil Hospital, yesterday.

Balfour at the Central Magistracy after this m ning!

Rud Ins

ho I conduct

the American Company, a pod afternoon, Ita wished, however, to make it

plain that if a contrary decision Their Highnesses the Sultan and

Chan Lee,, an old-jab coolie, who

emerged, as the result of legal action, Sultans of Johore, and suite, will had a previous conviction pleaded fing the parties could attain by altor arrive in the Colony to-morrow by guilty to stealing two brass

native methods,' which could not be the Fushima Maru, on route to Japhore

to attack, precisely the ame pan. The fultan and his consort

cult contemplated by the mers are making a holiday tour to

int, and; that such

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