1934-06-07 — Page 9

MERRIE ENGLAND

Philharmonic Society Venture.

MR. ANDERSON MILLER NEW MUSICAL LEADER

A General Meeting of the Phil- harmonic Society was held on Fri- day last, in St. John's Itall.

Cathedral

Professor W. Brown, the newly elected President presided over a fair attendance of members, including Mr. H. B. L. Dowbiggin, the retiring President, and Sir Wil- liam Hornell, a past President,

Professor Brown addressed the meeting at considerable length on the troubles of the past and the He laid prospects for the future.

particular emphasis on the apparent hopelessness of making any stage- production pay its way until a new City Hall provides local

amateurs

with a theatre, suitable in size and equipment, at a cost which will not, at the outset, guarantee deficit.

Free Mandate

21 heavy

A general discussion followed the address, various suggestions for future productions being consider- ed. Finally the meeting gave to the new President and committee a free mandate to organise the activities of the Society during the 1934-6.

Season

moved have Since then events rapidly and it has now been decided to produce, in November next, the Eng- Concert Version of "Merrie land" under the baton of Mr. Anderson Miller, L.R.A.M.

J.

It will be recalled that one of the

Modern Soldiers Of Fortune

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1934.

Los Angeles. Two modern soldiers of fortune who appear to be on the verge of becoming multi-millionaires are Clark F. McGillv. ray (left) and Macon Brammier, pictured arriving in the United 11 three-quarter-mile States on the s.s. Santa Ana after striking

vein of guld in Northern Nicaragus. As soon as assays of their ore are, completed they will return to their rich discovery in the moun- Laing near San Juan De la Mar. The men are former Colorado miners who went to Nicaragua on a "hunch". McGilvray is a tank corps hero of the Battle of St. Michiel.

Society's most notable successes in CAMPANULA FOR|

the past was the stage production)

of "Merrie England" in 1927, when Lt. Commander A. S. Bedells R.N.,

the leading! produced and played

Most role as Walter Wilkinsons. light operas depend upon their music for popularity, the plot fre quently being thing and interest- ing.

mur

il the

Vast Experience.

THE OAKS

Harry Wragg Riding Favourite.

TO-MORROW'S STARTERS

London, To-day. Winner of the One Thousand

morrow.

by

FATALITY ATTENDS ARMED ROBBERY Woman's Death Jump To Escape.

ANOTHER SHAMSHUIPO WOMAN STABBED WITH SCISSORS

To-day's Short Story.

EARTH'S SECRET

E a talk one day at the

By Lord Dunsany

"But the world, you know, is con-

We had a talk ont scientific tracting a bit as e cools; little nature. Such a talk may be in- enough if you take the whole bulk teresting, and certainly instruc- of it, but it plays the devil with the tive, if there is only one scien-crust; wrinkles it, bores holes in tist talking. He has to make it, and one thing and another. You himself clear to the rest. But know they've got a theory that the on this day there were two of Andes are moving slightly, away them. That may appear to have from the Himalayas, and that that made it twice as interesting is the cause latterly of a good deal as a matter of fact it was the of the subsidence and upheavals dullest talk I have heard in the that have been recorded on scismo. club for a long time.

graphs."

You see they each know what the

"Are we going to have some more other was talking about so that scfence?" said Terbut.

to make

there was no necessity.

And I admit that he voiced the themselves any clearer. And being apprehensions of most of us.

on their own subject they soon get "Briefly, said Jorkens, "that very keen, and there was no stop-mountain is now a volcano." ping them. It was all very tedious, They were on the age-old theme of the alchemists, but were giving modern and very learned reasons why the dream of the alchemists was impossible.

TO-MORROW'S STORY

To-morrow's story will be "Pompeii In Massachusetts," by Louis Golding.

"Oh," said Terbut, and was allent;

Base metals, they were saying, could never be turned into gold; but I have said that their talk wak tedious, bad enough for us in the club where we couldn't escape it, for he was not the intrepid travel- but unthinkable for my reader, wholer that Jorkena was.

"But in those days," Jorkens con- can fly from such things by a mere flick of the page. So I will tell the tinued, "it was a snow-capped moun- tale from the moment at which any tain, with the man was telling you brightness came into it, any merri-of living just at the edge of the ment, any audacity; and not, I hope, snow, bits of it. running along without some advantage to science. ravines far under him, and his goata It was when Jarkens spoke, on wandering about, which, with a few top of their weighty reasons against lean-looking chickens, seemed the making of gold. "I made some that he had for austenance, besides once," he said.

a very small patch of cabbages, and There he "You made some?" they said to- the mountain streams. gether.

lived and grew a narrow and very "A small pot-full," said Jorkena.ong beard and, I suppose, meditat- Then we all asked him how it ed. I was able to do him a small was, and so we got his story. service, in exchange for which he "Some while ago, in Asia, far up gave me a kind of little note-book Ja mountain,' said Jorkens, "a man of thin leaves covered with figures. than It was in fact the secret of making

gold."

→

"Merrie England" makes a double: appeal, the genius of Edward Ger.

An armed robbery, in which was living alone, higher up giving

wonderful Guineus in a second under Colom-one woman was killed and an- the monkeys and higher than all the

"A small service?" said Terbut, sequence of tuneful choruses, solos. bo's time for the 2.000 Guineas, other injured, occurred yesterday villages. And when I came once in

"Well," said Jorkens, "it Wa duets, trios and quartettes, and, in Campanula is n hot favourite for at No. 1, Wong Chok Street, any travels to his curious pagoda-]

casily done." addition, the libretto of Bas!! Hood The Oaks, which will be decided Shamshuipo, 2nd floor. Four men like house......"

"Where was it?" asked Terbut "And he gave you the secret of to have been arrested. recalls vividly glamorous days of over 14 miles at Epsom

Wong Sin-man, 29-year-old wo-! "He made me swear not to reveal gold for it?" Ruleigh and Good Queen Bess.

"Yes, certainly," replied Jorkens. Campanula, is owned Sir man, owner of the property, was it," Jorkens answered, "but the oath Mr. Anderson Miller has had con George Bullough, and will be rid-visited by the leader, who asked was not very binding on account of But we could all see that he was

his having sworn me by gods for getting embarrassed. siderable experience of Choral work, den by Harry Wragg, the jockey to rent a fiat.

He later returned with three whom I have little respect, disgust You must have been of great together with a contagious enthus-who piloted him to victory in the

the ing gods really; the things they service to him," said Terbut. The trainer is J. other men, whom he left at num. The production should be a 1,000 Guineas.

door, and forced his way in. When used to do and take a delight in do- "No, no," said Jorkens, "It was delight to all who participate, either Jarvis.

Zelina, owned by Mr. Z. G. he managed to get inside he drewing. If the tales about them were nothing much. Not at all." principals or chorus, to all other

Michalinos,

We have not often seen. Jorkens sang The things people Greenham a pair of scissors and came to true! supporters.

who managed about them Well let's forget them, embarrassed, and the hunting sense The venue of the Production has Plate at Newbury at his first out-grips with Wong, not yet been decided, but the nature ing, beating Medieval Knight (Gor-to slip from his grasp and run out The oath can't have been binding. in Terbut. If you can call it by any on to the verandah. When she isn't that that stops me from so sporting a name, was much ex-! of the production will allow it to be don Richards), produced in either Kowloon Zelina, will again be ridden by noticed that she was being follow-telling you. Hong Kong. The committee antici-Steve Donoghue.

ed she jumped over the verandah | pate a substantial increase in mem- The probable starters, with their railings and fell to the road, break- bership, and an influx of fresh jockeys, as cabled by Reuter, are ing her spine. talent. The society is through a period of difficulty, but

its members, there is, among general feeling of optimism and confidence in the society.

or

passing as follows.

choral

It is hoped to commence practices early in September, but regarding this a further

ment will be made later.

announce-

Season's Programme.

The programme for the remain-

der of the Season 1334-5 has still to

won

the

Instantaneoun (Dick) Shining Cloud (Nicoll)

Campanula (Harry Wrage) Spend a Penny (Perryman) Filastic (Sam Wragg)

Solitude (Fox)

Moonstone (Canty)

Light Brocade (Carlake)

Kylae (T. Burns)

Call of Duty (Harry Beasley)

Zelina (Steve Donoghue) Mistor (Gordon Richards)

The Coronation Cup will be de

be determined, but it may be re-cided at Epsom to-day.

garded as certain that at least one

other concert (of a different type) TAHJAMAHAL SILK

will be given, and quite possibly

two under the same or another con- ductor.

STORE ROBBED.

$28 Roll Results In $50 Fine.

elted by it; so that he soon got out! of Jorkens what that small service had been. He wavered for a mo-1

PORTUGUESE YOUTH[ment between bare truth and his

Another woman. Chan Sze, from the same

the house, ran down stairs blowing a whistle. She was

BLAMELESS.

amour propre, and then blurted out the bare truth.

"He told me," said Jorkens, "that

later found with abdomen Alleged To Be Without he was bound by his religion to give

A#

wound inflicted by the pair of

scissors.

Both women were admitted to

Bicycle Lamp.

me food and shelter, but that, if I would go at once without demand-] Joseph Pulisa, 19-year-old Por-ing his hospitality, he would give Evidently the Kowloon Hospital, Wong Sin-tuguese boy, of 8 Canarvon Road,me the secret of gold..

No man dying shortly afterwards.

pleaded not guilty to a charge of hot a very friendly fellow. having ridden a bicycle in Nathan herd instinct, I mean. And giving Road without a lamp at 9.10 p.m. me the secret of gold meant nothing on Wednesday night, and was dis-to the contrary, because I could see fcharge by Mr. E, I. Wynne Jones by his face as he gave me the little. at the Kowloon Magistracy yeater-bundle of pages that he regarded it day,

as the root of all evil; a kind of Defendant said that the was not contemptuous look as he gave, me

the secret. riding the bicycle at the time.

Post Office Barometer Indicates British Recovery

(Continued from Page 1).

Office had received, sorted and de- livered 100,000,000 more letters than during the previous year, and now selling some 20,000,000 stamps every day.

was

MANICURING WITH LARGE KNIFE.

Demonstration That Failed.

"And another thing that I didn't: fellow WAS the like about the serenity that seemed to come on his face when I accepted his book and left, a nasty sort of calm and a glow in his eyes. But never mind that; I knew I had the best of the bar- gain, and, if he didn't like me, I didn't like his long thin dark board, going grey at the edges, or the way he lived, or dressed, or anything! whatever about him.

It will greatly facilitate the Im- mediate work of the committee if all Vice-Presidents, Subscribing and

The time had come, he said, for a Ordinary Members of the society Two men and a woman, Chang substantial reduction in telephone| will kindly sent in their subscrip- Cho-min, a fruit hawker on charges in order to stimulate the tione at their earliest convenience. board the 8.8. Kwong Po, Lin widest possible development of the The new Hon. Secretary is Mr. R. Wun-chin, also of the s.s. Kwong service, and this would take effect A. Bates, of the Y.M.C.A., the Hon. Po, and Tang Wan-sze, a pussen-in October, when other important

Chan Hung, a 85-year-old unem: Treasurer is Mr. II. M. Cockle, c/o ger on the s.5. Kwong Po, were modifications in the conditions of

ployed Chinese was sentenced to Harbour Office while Mr. J. Ander-charged before Mr. Q. A. A. Mac that service would be made. son Miller, the Hon. Conductor, re-Fayden at the Central Police. There was an increase in 1988 two months hard labour by Mr. E. sides at the Claremont Hotel, Kow-Court this morning, with theft of £21,000,000 in the savings Bank Wynne Jones at the Kowloon and aiding and abetting, at the balances, and the balance due to Magistracy this morning for hav- Tahjamahal Silk Store, D'Agul depositors with accrued interests, ing in possession of a large Chinese lar Street, yesterday,

had now reached the remarkable knife for an unlawful purpose. Chang, who was charged with gure of £38,000,000.

Defendant stated that he used the theft of a roll of silk, valued The General improvement war. It to cut his finger nails with, but I didn't know much Tibetan, the at $28, was fined $50, in default ranted capital expenditure in Post when asked for a demonstration he one month's hard labour, while office development during the car-was unable to do so, Lin and the woman who were rent year of £84,000,000, an in-

loon.

SOCIAL WEDDING ON SATURDAY. Gasper-Westland.

Sir Thomas Southern K.B.E. will give the bride away at Saturday's wedding at the Union Church,

Kennedy Road, of Miss Dorothy Westland and Mr. Arthur Gasper.

charged with aiding and abetting, crease of £2,000,000 over last year' TWO MORE DOGS GO

were discharged,

expenditure, to be spent mainly on telephonic and telegraphic ser-]

CHINA SPORTS CO., GO INTO ́: [vices."

VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION

It was the settled policy of the Post Office to

use air servies

UNMUZZLED.

Europeans Fined In Kowloon.

"Who ever heard of green slik up a mountain! Yet, whatever rot his meditations were, or his philosophy and all that, his recipe for the making of gold was perfectly sound. language in which he wrote it, and

I had to get it translated bit by bit so as not to awake suspicions, which LV took a long time, but I soon what he was driving at; the main idea was simple enough; it was merely that to make an element you need all the other elements. There are about 40 of them; take away one and the remainder all together The final general meeting of the wherever practicable, and question

Mr. C. B Easterbrook, of 0 will make up the missing one. I The bride, who is the only child China Sports Limited, in volun- of air service was being consider- of the late Mr. G. G. Westland, tary liquidation), whose project offed by the Governments concerned. Waterloo Road, was - fined $9 by believe a similar law holds good and Mrs. Westland, of Kandy, running a race course at Shek Pel The development of air services Mr. E, I, Wynns Jones at the Kow with colours,

"But it wasn't anything like as | Ceylon, was for over five years was dropped owing to the failure in Britain itself was being care-loon Magistracy this morning for Secretary and Treasurer of the of certain negotiations with the fully studied.

Kinging allowing his dog in the streets on easy as it may sound, because all Helena May Institute. Lady Canton Government, was held yes-Referring to broadcasting, hi May 15 without a mumle.png those alaments had to be blended in Mr. B. Schurter, of 58 Canton the most exact proportions, accord- Bonthorn will be among the dia- terday at the office of Mesurs, P. said that on March 31 there ware tinguished guests who will be pre-II Bin and Co, Solicitors for the over 6,500,000 wireless licences in Rold, was also fined $8 on a simi- ing to their various weights, so that

force-British Wireless Service. lar charge,

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