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EXHIBITION OF

· PHOTOGRAPHS Schoolboys Pictures On View

HIGH STANDARD DISPLAYED

The Wah Yan College Amateur Photographic Club Exhibition opened this morning at 10 o'clock in the Lounge of the Gloucester;

- Hotel (8th floor), and will con-

tinue till 4 p.m. next Friday.

The standard of work in the Exhibition is of a very high order," especially so, if we take into con- sideration that, excepting one sec-| tion, it is all the work of school- boys. Although it was not 2. rule of the Club that pictures should be finished by the exhibi- tors, we find that in the greater) number of cases, the pictures were enlarged and finished by the boys.

contain pictures

Two of the sections in the ex- Libition do not taken by Wah Yan boys. One is open to past students of Wah Yan, and another to students of other Hong Kong and Canton colleges.

Dr. F. Bunjc, Mr. E A Yon Robza Nagi, and Mr. H. Lueer, all

Hollywood saya there's 2 TO- -mance a-brewing betweeRE Lyle

Talbot, screen actor,

and Liss Hanquette, sétress and former wife of Teddy Hayes, Dempsey's. old trainer.. The two, pictured

above dancing, sy the rumour is unfounded, but there's à mile on their faces, so we won't say anything.

APRIL 1-FEAST OF FOLLIES

THE CRINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 199

To-day's Complete Play

Sir Herbert Is Deeply Touched

CHARACTERS.

SIE HEESERT. PARKER

A YOUNG MAN.

(The pricate sitting-room in G

By HC

Stevens

1spell, if I have told you once, I have told you fifty times-that Sir Herbert, does not give his au- }tograph!

Well? PARKER (trying to plead with West End theatre of Six HER his new employer that he is not BERT most distinguished of ac-doing himself any particular good dors. Its dignified furnishing by this attitude). But, Sir Her includes a club suite in leather, bert-don't you think, perhaps—er makogany sideboard, heary--that—— bookcase — and so on, ad lib; SIR HERBERT. Tell me, tell me and rich velvet curtains, Centre (Parker-are you sccustomed to re- Back, divide it from the dress-{ceive gratuities from the people ing-room. There is a door down whose books you succeed in-er-? Right).

PARKER Certainly not, Sir Her

SIR HERBERT is heary and pombert-certainly not!

pour -- decidedly in the man- SIE HERRERET. Then, you need not ner of the older school; and he worry-surely?

appears, at the end of a matinee, FAKKER. ET-no. Sir Herbert--- as a Petruchio, -a d'Artagnan, a}but I—–—

Marcus Superdus — or any SIK HERBERT. The fact is. I) such "commanding" figure as suppose, that before you came to will lend itseif, în this sketch,{me, you attended upon some to a performance of many see some musical comedy youth--with tures and declamations).

crimped hairwho spent his whole! (PARKER is his dresser just a life signing his name--for lovesick. (Continued from Page *) thin man, of no particular age Rappers to gloat over-instead of -and is completely dominated).learning how to act, Parker-in- Jonathan Swift records in his PARKER enters Right, carrying a stead of learning how to act! names very well-known in HongJournal to Stella" that he spent Kong photographic circles, were the evening of March 31, 1713,

make-up tray, and an appro priate cloak, or sword, that Su the judges.

with Dr. Arbuthnot and Lady Ma- HERBERT has been using during Prize-Winners

isham contriving "a lie for to-mor-the earlier part of the after-} Best Picture: No. G269. "Clean row;" and it must be confessed or Naughty," by Lam Po Hon.

that the rumour his footman took

A Wise Maxim

100%.

He takes them through into the "dressing-room, and re- turns cimost immediately-to find that SIR HERBEET is now arriving from the stage.)

STR. HERBERT. Sixteen curtain calls! (To his stage manager, off.))

It is one of the wisest maxims No! I refuse to give more at 1

.

You

TO-MORROW'S PLAY

To-morrow's play will be "The Bugginses" Picnic,” by Mabel Constanduros and Michael Hogan,

PARKER NO, Sir Herbert-as

I-am even more

PARKER. Yes, Sir Herbert.

Story-Telling Section: Jst round to the houses of his fashion- G.269, "Clean or Naughty," by able friends does not redound] Po Hon; 2nd, G.301, "Bargain either to the wit or to the good Hunters," by John Lam Yat Yuen: taste of the Dean. 3rd, G.313, "Watchers," by Thomas Woo; 4th, G.310, The Daily Task," by Thomas Woo.

of life never to grudge being matinee! Then he descends sure I told you when you first Landscape Section: 1st, 1368. made to look a fool on any day of into an armchair, and, with a large engaged me. I've always dressed "Village Glory,”; - Enid, L.364, the year, and least of all on April silk handkerchief. begins to re-the legitimate. "Semmer Sunshine": 3rd. L-224, 1. To be easily taken in is a pal-cover from what has evidently been SIR HERBERT. Never mind what "Sunset"; 4th, 232, "The Quiet pable evidence of spiritual grace, a very strenuous performance. you've always done--all you have Lane." 1st Prize. Thomas Woo; proof that we have not travelled Then PARKER collects, from the to do now is to remember that you for first two pictures: 2nd Prize, too far from the blessed state of sideboard, a number of autograph dress me.... Yung Fook Hoi, for 3rd; 3rd childish innocence-

books, at the sight of which STR than legitimate. Prize, Han King Yuen for 4th.

The First of April should be a HERBERT starts up.) Portrait Section: 1st, F398,"General Festival" to be shared by have been with me, my good fel-

SIB HERBERT (soliloquiring). "Wan. pm kok?." by John Lam the old and the young, by the wise low, but three odd weeks--

Why should I sign my name for Yat Yuen; 2nd, P.323, "M3. X." and the foolish, by the rich and PARKER Er-that is so, Sir Her-people-just because they've · neen Choy Sai Hing.

the poor.

The most pompens of bert.

me on the stage? .... Why, in- Still Life Section: 1st, 342, all the King's subjects, a man ob-

They've paid their "Not in an Editor's Room," by sessed day and night with the

money to PARKER)o theatric Lam Yat Yuen; 2nd. S.349, "Cab-sense of his own importance, can

al slumps can ever affect me, F bages," by Yuen Ging Fung. hardly sustain "his folly" when

have you know Old Boys' Section: 1st, 411,jupon lifting the cover of the fish "One Happy Family," by Tsang dish on the sideboard he is sud- Wa Choi; 2nd. 404, “Fishmong-denly reminded of the calendar and era," by Ying Wa Fay.

realises that not even his starched, Section open to other colleges; formality has saved him from be- Cup for Best Collection, St.jcoming, by the absence of a kipper, Joseph's College.

a poisson d'avril par excellence.

SIR HEREERT.and in that brief deed?.

ASSAULT CASE TEST

Doctor Submits To Woman's Bite

PARKER. I feel quite sure of that, Sir Herbert.

SIR HERBERT (resuming). they've paid their money-and they've had for more than the worth of it-in the finest acting seen in London for-huh!-for a hundred years at least!.. Er-pat

A doctor who allowed a woman those damn things down!

1st, 105, “Writing." by Ng Sui How pretty it is to watch Cheong. (St. Joseph's College): elderly man indulge in some harm- 2nd, 116. "Fals" by To Shun Yuet.jless imposture at the expense of to bite his finger so as to make a (PARKSE returns the autograph - (King's College); 3rd, 120, by Nihis nursery children causing comparison with another bite books to the sideboard.) ... Now Chi Yin (King's College); 4th, them to run to the window to see gave evidence at Bristol Assizes you, no doubt, would consider 148, by Yung Man Tin. (Queen's a phoenix in the forsythia, or alast month.

there was (with specic scorri)----| College).

fairy asleep on the daffodil bed! He was Dr. Alexander Reid, of publicity value, or something, in "Proud-Pied April Malvern House, Bridgwater, and my scribbling all over them The First of April ushers in was a witness in a case in which (PARKER now fetches, also from the month when the very birds the accused was William. John the sideboard, a silver salver, on pleasure themselves at our expense. Hancock, aged. 38, labourer, which are about a dozen visiting corda) ...and in admitting to “Oh, what, fools ye mortals ber" Kendall-road, Bridgwater. Han- laughs the yaffle in every copse cock was charged with being arm the privacy of my room this per- It is in "proud-pied fed with a pistol, and assaulting son or that person anybody who April" that the cuckoo is heard Miss Lottie Pollard, aged 60, chooses to call-willy-nilly-Listen- making reiterated sport of the with intent to rob. He pleaded in to their stupid flatteries ac- most sacred institution of our civil not guilty.

cepting their invitations to open, it might be. some tuppenny-

URBAN COUNCIL MEETING

Resignation Of Hon.

Mr. M. K. Lo

SERVICE EULOGISED

and wood.

الله

that

society, he sits among the Miss Pollard, who lives at branches of an elm tree bough or Mount Bradford Cottage, Wemba'penny church baraar-or to as- A letter of resignation from the flies across

sume control of the-the bran tüb some open space be-don, Bridgwater, stated that they wouldn't even stop at bran Hon. Mr. M. K. Lo as a member of tween trees, from beak to long Jan. 13 a man, grasping a pistol, tubs! at a village fete! ... Me, the Urban Council was placed be-tail tingling with the irrespon-entered her house.

mark you! ... Sir Herbert! fore the fortnightly meeting of sible, scandalous high spirits of a

Bit His Finger ·

Publicity! ... Pah! the Council yesterday afternoon. spring morning.

When he had no longer hold of ow, do you seriously feel that Self-complacence and self-impor- the pistol she bit the second fir-that I-am in any need of-?- Expressions of regret were made by the Chairman, Mr. H. R. Todd,tance are the cardinal sins

ger of one of his hands very hard. stand open to unexpected correc- The intruder then left the house. I don't think, Sir

PARKER (overwhelmed). B-bat] and Dr. Li Shu-fan.

tion on this day. We are all like-At an identification parade

Herbert, she that it's entirely a question of "present af the meeting were they enough to have our egoisuus (picked out a man other than Ean-publicity.....

Not all these Hon. Dr. A. R. Wellington, CMG, twitched from unexpected quar cock.

ladies and gentlemen (ofering (Vice-Chairman), the Hon. Mrters. The very boot-blacks stand

Dr. Alexander Reid said he salver). I feel sure, have any A. G. E. Tickle (Director

Let us then go merrily forward consistent with his having been in that way. They only want found a scar on Hancock's Enger(special desire to embarrass you in Public Works), the Hon. Mr. W.

toward Bach foreordained acci-

bitten. To check the matter he to-

Besides the Chairman, those

of

ready with their quipe.

J. Carrie (Secretary for Chinese) Affairs), the Hon. Mr. T. H. King words of Charles Lamb: "He who

dents, taking to our comfort the allowed Miss Follard to bite his (Continued on Page 11.) (Inspector-General of Police), Mr. has not a dram of folly in his own finger.

F. C. Hall, Dr. E. A. de Castro

mixture, hath pounds of much

"When she bit my second fin-CHINA FLEET CLUB Basto, Mr. L. C. F. Bellamy, Dr worse matter in his composition "I had to tell her to stop," he Li Shu-fan, Mr. A. el Areuili, Dr.

S. N. Chau, Mr. C. J. Roe (Secre- tary), and Mr. Im Ping-tzeung (Continued from Previous CoL) (Assistant Secretary).

19. Des Voeux Road West, third ficor.

Licences Refused

Isaid. "Bertooth would have

punctured my finger."

Cross-examined, Dr. Reid said that the mark on Hancock's finger might possibly have been made by a slipping screw-driver.

Fancy Dress Dance Of R.A.O.C.

Over 100 couples took the flow at the fancy dress dance of the

The following applications were Application for goat licence at refused by the Select Committee the compound of Hong Kong and Hancock was found not guilty R.A.0.C, on Monday last, when with the agreement of the Caan-Shanghai Bank, Ma. Tau Kok jon both counts and was discharg-the China Fleet Club was *ay

Road.

cil:

Application for a food factory licence at No. 278, Temple Street, ground floor (a rocess).

Application for 's food factory licence at No, 54; Jordan Road, ground floor (side door).

Ted.

Appeal For Clemency

San Francisco.

the basis of the appeal

with a bewildering variety of costumes, many of them of strik-

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ling originality. The band of the PLAYERS TAKE

East Lancashire Regiment pro- Ivided an excellent programme of

dance-music,

8 CALLS Evelyn Laye's US. Success

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AND ALL BOOKSTALLS

Sweet Alces" It was bein [given a trial

2.

EDINBURGH 200 LOSES

CHIMPANZEE

here before opening in New York the follow- ing week The first prize for ladies wa

The parts" had been cart-with Application for a food factory

won by Mrs. Turner, as "Maza-}"

great skilt by the authoress, Miss Bobo, the popn licence at No. 516, Queen's Road! Mr. Cane, the British Consul This intervention follows an ap-wattce Tea," and the second by

Joyce Carey, who came trom West, ground floor.ge

[here, has presented to Governor peal by Mackay, who claims to be Mrs. Whykes as a rustic maiden.

at the Scottish London to supervise the prodno- Application for a "food factory Merriam, at the request of the a native of Govan, Glasgow. He For gentlemen's costames, Mr.

Edinburgh, has tion. The distinguished audience, licence at No. 40, Des Voeux Road British Foreign Office, an appeal sent's letter to Mr. Nell Maclean, Baliff secured first prize as "Mas Miss Evelyn Laye, the British drawn largely from oficial and eight. The animal West, ground floor (side door). for clemency for 28-year-old Alex- the Socialist M.P. for Govan, ap-querade,” while Mr. Whitehouse actress, received high praise from diplomatic Washington, gave the barr six years ago

Application for a dangerous ander Mackay, who has been sen- pealing to him to intercede on his won the second prize as "Treasure the Critics last month for her play an enthusiastic reception, Africa. A daily event and offensive trade licence at No. tenced to death for kidnapping. behalf and save his neck,” as the Island* The lucky number was performance in the American and, after the final curtain, the mer time was the ope

Mr. Cane declined to disclose did not kill anybody.” (Continued in Next Column) »

premiere of the London success, company had to take, eight cells. parties which he “conducted.

No. 40

Washington.