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REPULSE BAY CABARET

Grenadier's Band Gains Popularity

YOLA AND PAUL SUPREME

"Saturday night again proved the rendezvous of Hong Kong Hociety, despite many counter at- tractions.

The dancing of YOLA & PAUL, in entirely new presentations, were received with rounds of applause and these popular artists were re- called for many encoris. The pub-1

these lic has yet terpischarcans mure ball-room dancing appreciated fully why this talent ed team have caused such a furore on the Continent during the past three years.

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They will be appearing on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve and the Management advises early reservations for the latter date owing to the possibility of book- inga closing at any time..

The "Grenadier's Band" under the leadership of Ben Constantino, although new to hotel patrons, is fast becoming the most popular dance orchestra in the Colony.

As in past years; everything points to Repulse Bay being the crowded scene for flong Kong to bid 'Adios' to the old year and say 'Good Morning' to the Now One."

OBITUARY

Well-Known Portuguese Passes At 65

MANY PAY LAST TRIBUTE

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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1934

Charles Boyer, who plays his first important role in this film, is here seen with Loretta Young in a scene from "Caravan," the Christmas attrac- tion at the King's Theatre.

The Man With The Worst Job On Earth

Works 30 Minutes A Day

£3,000 A Year

For

The funeral of the late Mr. Charlos Savard Remedios, who died on Saturday evening at his residence in Humphrey's Avenue, Kowloon, took place yesterday at!

HE latest victim of the 'flafone hour before it is placed on the the Catholic Cemetery. The Rev. This is sweeping the Near dictators table. Fr. Rossi officiated.

It takes only Afteen minutes to Mr. Remedios, who was 65 years Bast is a man who earns £3,000 a

day! He is the man whose duty it elapse before the dictator tastes the is to taste the food before it is food in case the taster should die The chief mourner was the son-

served to 'Mustapha Kemal Pasha, in the interval. It is reckoned that in-law, Mr. A. de Luz, and among

after an the dictator.

hour the danger has Messrs. those present were

J.

Twice a day-until 'du laid him passed. Ribeiro, A. V. Ribeiro, G. A. V.

Mustapha Kemal has many lurk Ribeiro, A. Ribeiro, H. Gitting, C. low-this man with the most un-

"To-day's Short Story,

The Twisting

Of The Rope

By W. B. Yeats

HANAHAN was stim tefl of that story, or if anyone goes

ANRAHAN was walking. the grow wicked," she said, "If he hears|| vara at the fall of day, and he questioning him." One or another heard the sound of a fiddle from called out then, asking him for a a house a little way off the road-song, but the man of the house said side. He turned up the path to it was no time to ask him for a song, it, for he never had the habit of before he had reated himself and passing by any place where there he gave him whisky in a glass, ond was music or dancing or good Hanrahan thanked him and wished company without going in. hin good health and drank it off.

The man of the house was stand-

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ing at the door, and when Hanrahan The fiddler was tuning his fiddle came near. he knew him and said:for another dance, and the man of "A welcome before you, Hanrahan; the house sald to the young men you have been lost to us this long they would all know what dancing time." But the woman of the house was like when they saw Hanrahan came to the door and she said to her dance, for the like of it had never husband: "I would be as well pleased been seen since he was there before. for Hanrahan not to come in to-Hanrahan said he would not dance, night, for he has no good name now he had better use for his feet now, Among the priests, or with women travelling as he was through the that mind themselves, and I wouldn't five provinces of Ireland.

wonder from his walk if he has a drop of drink taken." But the man

said, "I will never turn away Han

rahan of the poets from my door,"

WEDNESDAY'S STORY

Wednesday's story will be

and with that he bade him enter. "Chimera." by Claire D.

There were a good many neigh-Pollexfen. bours gathered in the house, and

Just as he said that there came some of them remembered Hanra-

at the half-door Dona, the han; but some of the little lads that fin were in the corners had only heard daughter of the house, having a few! of him, and they stood up to have bits of bog deal from Connemara in She throw a view of him, and one of them said: her arms for the fire.

HARASSED TEACHERS NOW NO BETTER, OFF

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of age, is survived by his wife and year for working thirty minutes a taste the dishes, but the hour must the municipal teachers is about boots that were worn and broken,|

four daughters.

SALARY LOSSES

"Is not that Hanrahan that had the them on the hearth and the flame school, and that was brought away rose up, and showed her to be very by Them?" But his mother put her comely and smiling, and two or three hand over his mouth and bade him of the young men rose up and asked be quiet, and not be saying things for a dance. But Hanrahan crossed like that. "For Hanrahan la ant to the floor and brushed the others away, and said it was with him she must dance, after the long road hej had travelled before he came to her. And it is likely he said some softj word in her ear, for she said noth- ing against it, and stood, out with him, and there were little blushes in

Then other couples) authorities to

It is impossible for the municipal her cheeks.

pay all the Ave stood up, but when the dance was months' salaries owing to financial going to begin Hanrahan chanced to: stringency. The total amount due look down, and he took notice of his $400,000, but why their pay has and the ragged grey socks showing fallen in arrear is not clearly stated. through them and he said angrily it was a bad floor, and the music no Municipal officials have been paid great things, and he sat down in the up to November, but their salary in dark place beside the hearth. actually only about 76 per cent. of if he did, the girl sat down there P. Xavier, F. F. F. Ribeiro, C. M. C./comfortable job on earth has stooding foes. That is why his taster is the proper amount after deducting with him.

in the kitchen of the President's so well paid for the nerve-racking the depreciation of the municipal The dancing went on, and when Ribeiro, M. Remedios, D. P. 3. villa near Ankara, or in the kitchen job. Ile belongs to the Turkish banknotes and contribution to the that dance was over another was Barretto, A. Barretto and E. V. Mof the residential-presidential trala, Secret Service, and his salary is Kuomintang.

tasting every single dish prepared larger than that paid to many of Many municipal school teachers notice of Oona and Red Hanrahan Mustapha Kemal's diplomatic en-are looking for other openings in for a while, in the corner where But the mother grew voys to foreign Courts..

view of their financial dificulties, they were. He is known in Turkey as "the and the better teachers have already to be uneasy, and she called to Oona found work elsewhere. It is rather to come and help her to set the table The pickings from the President's difficult to find replacements, when in the inner room. But Oona, that dishes, he says, satisfy him. Some they are told that they will only get had never refused her before, said people declare that the thought of their salaries next February even if she would come soon, but not yet, powdered glass, powdered diamonds, they start work now.

for she was listening to whatever he and snake poison inserted into Those teachers in primary schools was saying in her ear. Mrs. G. V. Osmund, F. R. C. da Cruz "No, there is no trouble any rissoles, called kebabs, and beloved receive a salary from $35 to $45 a The mother grew yet more uneasy

the official was where,"

told of Mustapha Kemal, or sprinkled month, while those in the middle then, and she would come Luz, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Osmund, through the telephone when he over his vegetables, destroys the schools are paid at the rate of $2.25 thom, and let on to be stirring, the Mr. and Mrs. Julio Ribeiro and reached home. Relieved of anxiety, laster's interest in food.

Lopes, F. A. M. Barretto, C. A

R. de Souza.

for his master. Floral tributes were sent by

After the food is tasted it goes "Fred, Dalin and Ginie," Mr. and Mra. A. M. da Luz, Miss Violet to a hot-plate, where it remains for

Capell, Mrs. Capell and family, Mr. | and Mrs. Greye and Miss Laly Sul-

dowsky, Ethel Lopes, Mrs. L. Mur-

ray, Mr. and Mrs. J. Gibaon, Mr.

and Mrs. J. B. Pomeroy, Mr. and

and family, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. da

COMEDY IN CANTON

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man who never eats."

family, Mr. and Mrs. F. X. Vbut still puzzled by the early de- The man who waits to drop dead Ribeiro, M. D. Rozario and family, parture of his staff, the official has no appetite! Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Xavier and questioned one of his subordinates family and Mrs L. Murray, C. M. as to why the entire staff left at Barretto, H. F. Hegner, H. L. 11.40 a.m. when the hour for learn-DUTCH Stainfield, Celeste M. Botelho and ing was 12 o'clock. Emilia M. Carvalho, F. M. da Graca,|

"LUNCH AND CHAT”"

Jose A. da Luz, Martha and Jose A. "Well, we heard the noon gur go da Luz, Martha and Jose Vieira off, so we went to the tea shops for Ribeiro, Angela and Crispinlane da our usual lunch and chat," was the

PLANE VICTIMS BURIED

AT BAGHDAD

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ANIMALAJ

EIGHT KILLED

cent.

But

called for. and no one took much

nearer

an hour for class-room work. The fire or sweeping the hearth, and she; rate is subject to the usual deduc- would listen for a minute to hear tions, amounting to about 25 per what the poet was saying to her child. And one time she heard him. telling about white-handed Deirdre. and how she brought the sous of Usnach to their death; and how the blush in her cheeks was not so red as the blood of kings" sons that was shed for her, and her sorrows had

PRIVATE INDUSTRY IN AMERICA

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Rosa, Alfredo Ribeiro, Emilia and explanation. It happened that the The plane, which secured second regarding power companies is seem- never gone out of mind; and he said it was maybe the memory of her Fernando Ribeiro, Maria and Carlos noon gun went off twenty minutes place in the Mildenhall to Melbourne ingly unaltered in its purpose of rethat made the cry of the plover on Riberio, Esther and Carlos da Silva, early owing to the fault of the time air race under the guidance of Par-ducing the capital of holding com-the-bog-as-sorrowful in the ear..of Helena and Armanda da Silva. keeper, who has been severely re-mentier and Moll, was piloted on its panies and also of reducing power the poets as the keening of young

Dr. G. M. Harston primanded for his error.

fatal trip by Beekman and Steen-rates and constructing water power men for a comrade. And there A similar happening occurred in bergen, and carried four passengers units which it will hold over the

would never have been that memory The news of the death of Dr. in many government offices, which in addition to two other members heads of private concerns as George Montagu Haraton, M.D., were evacuated 20 minutes sooner, of the crew. It was known as the threat even if it does not use them of her, he said, if it was not for

than usual. No actual harm was "Flying Hotel."

These new municipal plants will the poets that had put her beauty D.O., for 31 years a medical prac.

The pilots were attempting albe financed only if they can prove titioner in Hong Kong, on Decem- done, though the civil servants ber 21 at his home, No. 16 Coll- had some extra time for a chat in 15,000 mile flight, from Amsterdam themselves. capable of providing nette Road, Putney, London, has the tea houses for which Canton to the Dutch East Indies and return, cheaper power than present exist understand what he was saying, but

reached the Colony.

Dr. Harston was in his sixty-! second year and leaves a widow and three daughters who were well-known in Hong Kong. He is a brother of Mr. J. Scott Haraton.

The commencement of Dr. Harg ton's long association with the Co- lony was in April 1898.

JAPANESE DIET

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attack on the Government.

is famous.

PHYSICIANS IN CANTON NOW SEEK PROTECTION

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in their songs.

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carrying Christmas mails, and, ex ing companies. This fusistance on pected to complete the journey in lower rates by the Administration as far as she could hear it had the Ave days. The plane crashed at Rut-can probably be taken to indicate sound of poetry, though it was not rhymed, and this is what she heard bah Wells during a thunderstorm that no further monetary inflation him say: "The sun and the moon are and all eight occupants were killed. Is contemplated.

What Had The Turkey

the man and the girl, they are my life and your life, they are travelling and ever travelling through the skles as if under the one hood. It was God made them for one another.

Done To Deserve Judgment. He made your life and my life be

EUROPEAN EXAMPLE · The petition states that many countries in Europe have strict ro- gulations against foreign médical

The curious stories about peris that groups of birds hold fore the beginning of the world. practitioners, who are required to birds

courts of Justice on offenders, and He made them that they might goj undergo examination or must gra- A consignment of turkeys arrived punish them by agreement

through the world, up and down, in the Seyakal Party on December 'duate from universities of the coun- from Ireland for the Christmas Figures have Just been prepared like the two best dancers that go on 12, following that party's fruitless try in which they wish to practise. market. One bird was found to by the Country Gentlemen's Asso-with the dance up and down the long The Chinese doctors further stress have a wound in its neck. How had ciation which prove that among floor of the barn, fresh and laugh- No business will be transacted that China has turned out many doc it happened in transit?

captive birds the bigger the binding, when all the rest are tired out

and leaning against the wall," The question was answered when the longer it lives. the birds were released.

The peacock and the goose huve The old woman went then to where of the death of Emperor Hirohito's father, Emperor Talsho.

As a rule, people here prefer with one accord they turned-on long lives. The hen is short-lived her husband was playing cards, but The House of Peers is to open its Chinese medicine, but if they de- the wounded member and attacked 16 years at the most, he would take no notice of her, and

sire foreign remedy they usually it viciously. It had to be rescued

en she went to a woman of the None of the email birds has a then she sessions on Boxing Day, in the pre-

seek a foreign doctor or a Chinese and isolated from the others. long life Larke probably live neighbours and said: Is there no sence of the Emperor.

Both Houses will devote Thursday trained abroad. Most of the fore- The wound was bandaged. But longest. They have been known to way we can get them from one an- ather and without waiting for an to the election of special commit 18 doctors in Canton are Germans, even then, when it was restored to reach 17 years.

answer she said to some young men tees, and, on Friday morning, will and a few are Americans connect the dock, the others tried to pick The exception in the par

Boy which, though not a big bird, lives that were talking together. declare a recess until January 20ed mostly with missionary hospi- the bandage off.

(Continued on Page 11) There is a bellef among bird ex-much longer than most. Rengo.

to-morrow, it being the anniversary

tors from her own medical schools to supply the need.

tala

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