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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1967.

She Wants To Marry

A Chinese Boy

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A English girl with a

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Please address communica- tions:-Secretary, Hongkong Society for the Protection of Children. P.0. Bọz 3609 Hongkong.

Plexus wand us your unwanted taya Cellaation, denire et Modiffusion.

Hongkong because she wants to marry. a Chinese boy and settle in the Orient. She is Mary Bradbury of Man- chester, a five-foot-four brunette with big brown eyes.

But while her drenin boy hap to be Chinese, she does not care whether he is handsome or rich. "Just au long as he is educated and so long as he loves me I shall be satiriled," she said

Staring

Mary has mixed with Chinese people since she was a child and ber king for them just grew until the beginning of this year when she made up her mind to find herself a Chinese husband.

"While I have known Chinese people since I was very young. I did not dele a Chinese boy aald. the I was sixteen," "The boy took me to see opera and I felt so uncomfort- nble because everybody seemed to be staring at us. But as time went by I got over the uncasi- new and I came to like Chinec boys more and more."

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Then she began worklag es n waitress in a Chinese restaurant in Manchester. This she did for three years until the beginning of this year when she decided to earn more money to help speed her on her castward Journey to

come to London where she can

cause he too wants to marry a Chinese spouse.

Mary has heard a litle bit abenut Hongkong from her brother and she thinks that she will be happy settling there, "

any case you have to go there with the intention of liking it and not go there with all kinds of doubts and fears,” she said.

Mary also revealed that she

has a proposal for marriage from an American boy, but she said

by David T. K. Wong

Hongkong. She is al present working in another Chinese res taurant in London where she earns between te and eleven

pounds a week.

"If I really save, I shall have enough In another year's time for me to go to Hongkong" she said. "But if I can get someone In Hongkong to give me a Job 1 don do there sooner,"

she would rather marry Chinese boy instead because she did not think that she would be happy living in Amerien.

In preparation for her dasi- ward Journey, Mary is now learning Cantonese and she i keeping an eye preled to how Chinese food is cooked at the restaurant.

CURTAIN CALL

DRAPES and CHAINS

0

details

column,

and

you

N May 6, 1910, King excursion to reveal the sordid fashion

ite shear I am too old a hand not to. of such. But can we Edward VII died. not say in her favour that her poetry. She goes on: "The recogniso writing for

spaco colour schemes have under. Alling, specially when dreary gone a complete evolution. The have to cover an He was a popular venture into the more

assignment aspects of society is better than brilhant and gay materials and King, His Queen peopling the stage with Family still brighter unbroideries are about which you know nothing.

and duchesses, jaid aside. of them in her ward Mother's jealous regard ferald dukes

The flowers robe which she wears on special for her Royal duties the specious promises of society sad and

"Actress" writes to the Editor and women who are deluded by gay plumage are displaced and

saber colours alone to ask him to settle a question to be seen.

The whole upon which world lamenta its terrible loss." small bet.

Well Kita, if you are

still quite hurt alive, you must ba ut lost she has lost. seventy. What of the fashions

Mary also has that slim gori When asked what specife of figrue which goes well with a qualities of the Chinese

made Chinese dress, and she has her decide on a Chinese hus-

couple "I Just ilke band, Mary said:

They are occasions. the Chinese peopic. friendly, charming and kind. They would gladly help you if you are in need of help.

Bit Mean

"I find the English boys blt on the thean side. You

Since then Mary has deted don't meet many English boys

many Chinese boys from Hong Kong and Mulaya, and the used to be a frequent visitor to the Cling Institute In Manchester, But all the Chinese boys she

who would

say: 'Let's go and play table tennis. Instead they want to take you drinking or to come dark dancehall, The Chinese boys are

much more

ius been daling have bem seelable. I feel I can trust them because they always respect your wishes."

students, so Mary decided to go cast in order to meet other types | of Chinese boys,

no

Mary has 10 tar beari Mary is the fourth child in farther east than the white ciuta

of Dover, a fathily of eight children, twa

but her 24-year-old of whom are still going to school brother, John has been station

is dead and her ed with the army in Hongkong, Her father mother now looks after the He returited from Hongkong family. Mary went to school till four months ago and is now she Anished ber Secondary stationed in Germany, But he

roughly Modern, which

will be returning to Hongkong

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Dancing

The only passion that Mary in is for dancing, and she can tango and rock a roll with the best of them in Hongkong. At

cha.

present she is learning the che

quite a few of his colleagues

kept him away from all bounders and such?"

Feeble you say? Let me tell State affairs while he

you that was "hot stuff" for was Prince of Wales, 80 those days and I have little he turned to the social doubt the critic was cut by world. He was a racing when he went for the interval man, a great theatre drink. goer, and when younger, What did my pet critic say how she thinks something of a gambler. about it? marrying a Chinese boy. Mory The straightlaced set said: "I think my mother be very pleased. I have wouds didn't like him at all, quite a few of the Chinese boys but the theatre crowd I went out with home to meet just loved him.

When asked her mother would react to her

her and she has gotten along well with all of them.”

she has made a The Editor BCCIA to have to tell hér

"You have lost your wager, now?

but we hope the gentleman But Rito forgets her griet will be suficiently gallant not half way down her column as to deprive you of your gloves she becomes lost in her "Modes in consequence. Our late King for Mayfair". "Fashionable did visit The Whip' on two He says nothing except, "I Women

first night."

ing more and more popular. tight, to be present on the That seems rather a tall one The long drop earring" in the to me, and I am inclined to style most in favour, think that he did not want to and white pearls being the commit himself. My reason for reigning talicy for the thinking so is this. There wore moment"

Up 16 PERFORMANCES writes

So until she has autod enough money or unill she is offered Job" in the east, Mary will continue working at the Chinese restaurant, anticipating the day when she can begin her

Oriental quest,

$120,000 Building Plan For Kowloon

that

the

at the time who

aro again wearing occasions, the first on October earrings: this revival is grow- 28 the second on November 4,

AS STUPID Black

So

ballet was

been driven off the

London

you sce, granşımamnin was just me stupid in her way her granddaughter WHO writes to the Editor asking if

dominated all the tribe. Udually About this time. they both said more or less the making a comeback. It had o Tho Editor of The Play same thing, but regarding this

out to his play, "Chalbs" they disagreed, stage by a series of boisterous it is true that Elvis has had a' Pictorial points readers

late King Mordred of the "Referee" said: shows at the Empire and the tooth extracted. attended sixteen performances "I cannot imagine that such a Alhambra, but Mr Dewald

Stage people have ever been at the theatres the year before play

onybody Stoll, os he was then, tool the his death, and recognised the outside

inconsiderable Coliseum and the Hippodrome the fore (I'm beginning to write That way now) to importance of the Empire and circle of ardent playgoers who and brought over from Russla

A society column experiment homes of imagine that to be dull is to two superb bullet troupes, Mile. Editor, not the Alhambra

be Intellectual."

wishing to Variety

Olga Preobrajensky "led by altending per-

thought old fashioned, but not formances at those theatres.

above giving a Hittle advico, writes the following:

com-

should attract

thal

by JOHN LUFF

the

“Although Betresses

usually

motors,

bo

aro

bo

Also, the King had the theatre visit him. AL Windsor at the end of 1009, Sir Herbert

photographed in their Trea, H. B. Irving, and Mr

China Mail Dramatic Critic

with En American Charles Hawirey, gave

heiress suggestiveness about mond performances [ox the

the Ensemble, I am pleased. to King and his guests.

see that a good low of them On the other hand, Mr J. T. troupe at the Hippodrome. The stul One Editor sums it up by

pin their

the faith to Grein of the "Sunday Times" ballet seems to have been the friend of man, and may quoting Shakespeare; "He was said, "Miss Baker's play filled Swan Lake, but of course in observed gracefully- a man, take him all in all: me with respect and admiration. thood days our critic had to in Rotten Row, morning after cantering shall not look upon his like It is true, so real that one call it "Le Lac des Cygnes." | again."

It is without doubt metning, almost fears that It is the out- Plana described by Mr

the healthiest form of exerdiso Sir,I notice Mr Chapman Harry Way Tribunal mem- those days, and one devotes a

Editors had mora Leence in burat of a soul Instead of a

of manifestation Pincher has been conducting ber as sleeping experiments. I would design for the alte were inspiration which begins:

promise." a most economical portion of his column to

Sleep Experiments

felt.

with pain,

An

And mirth it fled from at the cast:--- England's brain.

INHUMAN?

like to tell you about one conducted about two or three placed before Tenancy Tri- years ago based on no selent!-bunal for the replacement ne theory that I know of, other of Nos. 196/198, Shanghai than human logic. It was this: Street, Kowloon, this morn- I noileed that I always awoke duting summer months feeling ing. drugged and heavy, I

There had been discussion judging from the various occa-

whether a structure higher than sions when I woke during the sit-storeys would be a better night. that if there were 4 graph which could be sketched development for the area, when Mr John Way, President of the showing the depth of sleep, Tribunal, remarked that his the view that Editors are mine would show 4 gradually colleague, Mr H. Way, who is necessarily human beings, I do descending curve from

about

an architect, had voiced his not think any jury would bring approval of the scheme. put it a verdict of gully" if the swing forward

owner shot the Editor by Mr P. Cu effort like that. deep authorised architect, until

While I do not subscribe to

Eadie

Fred

Lloyd

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future

Then down at the bottom Fenwick-Mr Lewis Casson

REASONABLE

I am surprised to find that they can tude, and a woman the critic has to tell the story with a food figure and seat of the ballet, for my cutting f (0) nover looks better than Pretty good, eh? Why am I taken from a very expensive, when on horseback.” The nation's voice rang in taking so zruch, fuas about this now defunct, society paper. old forgotten experiment in drama? I almost forgot. Look "The story as the story of a ballet d'action should be-is Charles Wilson-Mr Dennis simplicity itself. A young Do You know a place of Prince and his companions set music called "In the Shadows"? Tennant Mr Frederick off to chase a group of swans My question is quite reasonable...

for up to about ten years ago ....etc."

It was played quite frequently, It is quite obvious he knows and is often trotted out now by A light orchestra. Well-It rothing of ballet, he mentions

WEE Immediately after tho Maggio Mussey-Miss Sybil nothing of the technique, and orchestral

the selcelion .at Thorndike 11 or 12 until about 2 or 3 am.

the peculiar Vocabulary of Palate that I asked my tried Then the curve would

ballet is missing altogether. (aren't

Mr critics forty-seven years He mentions

#nobs) And now down sharply In lo

the "Tschaikowsky's Herman Finck,

talented on they are both going strong melodious trough and not rise again

Wo.saw Dame Sybil a fortnight

appropriato conductor (that should get froo the time of waiting.

ago in "The Prince

seats) where he picked up and the aldered various solutions, My

Showgirl" and both Dane Sybil

dainty morscat he had just messmale preferred to sleep ou

and Sir Lewis were out here Nevertheless, like most critics played. He gave me a dublous wooden

the boards during

the Colony thirty months who know nothing of their look as if to say "Who are you summer, so I tried that for by Peter

Bubject, he Is

con- getting at? but, noting my start. For the first fow nights appeared on behalf of Mrs. Ho A play In four acts by

descending. "They (the eamestness he laid claim to its I found the experience sum-Ching, owner of the property in Elizabeth Baker, presented at But the death of the King Hippodrome troupe), and 1 la- authorship," ciently distracting to deny me the exemption case since 1947.

the Duke of York's on Tuesday, had plunged the country into cludo Pavlova at the Palace, of any useful sleep until my She wishes to have the pre May 17, 1910.

mourning, and as the lodles of are endowed with the grace, However, the critic la right Says a critle: "Miss Baker the theatre had to be fashion the airy lightness

enco: and the for hipbone accepted the substlusent building comprising shops,

"In the Shidows" of the board for the a tea-house and tenement date has written a tragedy dealing able, ila advised them in her daintiness which one sees to became a bit tune as we now mattress and I lapsed into deep demolished, in order to erect on with lower middle class life. It column. "June is in mourning." such perfection in those fairy s07, especially in the days of

ogain.

Next I tried sleep

an the site two modern houses le somewhat of a dangerous What a lovely way to bogin a pletures by 'Dicky Doyle.” alarm clock, setting it to ring | costing at least $120,000. first at 2 am, then at 4 am.

tion

con-

hoping that this would effective. Again, it worked for

a few nights, until I began Bleeping through the alarm.

The third member of the Tribunal was Mir A. Vago.

Mr Lesile Wright, instructed

Mo and Company

Careful Report

Mr Iu hadi rondi a careful and Finally I tried sleeping at an detailed report and explained

angle

the limitations imposed by the the of 30 degrees to

smallness of the alle when he mattress by stacking up the

was challenged by Mr Comber pillows. This

aimilarly was effective initially but its success to why the building was fo was also short-lived. I deaded, in desperation to take the ad vice of the doctor in the ad- to explain what Hoist It

vertlements. Several bottles of

th

going up to the maximum height permissible in that area.

Mr Wright sunkach Me Tia

would be practicable to go up marulfident preparation to in a tenement house with have added wanted Inches to out a lift, when Mr John Way my dirth, and I'm strald thak weld there was so used to go

still, sleep as badly og aver further into the matter. In fact, since my marriage 1 Mr A. 5. C. Comber learn that I frequently talk in Hastings and Co was appearing my sleep thing I'm sure for tenents in the case, nover did before,

Woman Hurt

of

An adjournment wär allowed. have for negotiations after the ap- In the mean tiine i

slicant had given évidence. drinking, živen up and am now seribuïts: co- sidering giving up in determined to find the kaKTER to this problem, and the ther that Mr Pinchér has falled does not daunt nie. I ball A privalo car. knocked, down! write again when I am able to and seriously injured – woman, berit as did that' Gröclam Chan Yeg, in Rings Road, istáž- genklukkurs pit nå cutlier nge di Tony Shiu Hoad, at about 1.30 stopping into his bath.

(am, today. The woman fa 'being tronted at - the Queen - Mary

ŽURKIA.

for un

Meanwhile, in the midst of Ital:-

"CHAINS"

In

ago,

China Mail Entertainment Guide

WHAT'S ON TONIGHT

KING'S & PRINCESS: "Man Of The Moment": A

reissue starring Norma Wisdom.

QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA: "Hellcats Of The Navy":"

Americans at war again. Starring Ronald Reagan. HOXY & BROADWAY: "Brothers in Law": A Boulting Brothers comedy starring Richard Attenborough, Ian Carmichael and Terry-Thomas, STAR & METROPOLE: "Battle Hymn": The true story of Colonel Dein Hess who found a truer vocation as a fighter pilot than aà a parsoit. Rock Hudson and Anna Kashft.

HOOVER & LIBERTY: “This Could Be The Night": A hard-tip school-teacher makes an honest supple- mentary allowanco. in a nightclub. Jena Bim- mond; Puul Dougins, and Axithony Fruticosa..

music.

ard

a Uttlo

silent pictures.

RADIO HONGKONG

the

6.30 14., Thursday Club, introduced by Auntis Bari 820, Mon Tikio- by Robert Acheson, 6, Time Signal. † Fromised

BORCE} &. Programma Buntary 0.02. Portu Troplentia dál, Birthday Balibag; HAJA. Ilours, 5,30,- Precari 6.30, 0, Waltz TURKEY Personality Hound About with Doris Day and ParabénJudy Garland, TAB, Bous Fat Bobße: 7. Berenade for Buring venir songs; T20, Harmonies, Recital Orchestra

Major Op. 45 by Zau 'Mok, – soootmpanied by (TISTAROVĚKÝ). Formars on | Profesinę Harty Dre; VAST Concerts Lamoureux; 1,50, A Com- | story of Jane Almilage: 8. Tim power Posioms-žims Lowe, a popularial, and the New; de Weather lar song wrilet, plays and girls | Risport, other people's songs: 7.00, Weather | Tnterlude: 158, Capitol, Show: 0.30, Report; & Time Bignal. The Now!

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