THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1957.
IN HIS SECOND INSTALMENT ON JAPAN
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AUSTRALIA MAY GET
The Tea-House Is Not What THREE NEW STATES IN
To
OURIST posters, beites lettres and the vau- doville have given us stock ideas about most foreign countries. In Japan I ox-
that geishas would both serve the tea there and pro- vide conversational, and ESENCE;musical entertainment.
The truth is that the ordinary Japaneso is puzzled when you ask him where the nearest tea-house 18. What will first
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He Thought It Was QUEENSLAND & NSW
the
money-
pected to find the tea-house arrangements with the restaur- has five storeys and an orches at these counters for chocolate, a common centre of con- ant or machtal, ho says how tre that passes on an elevator cigarettes, raisins etc as vivial resort and I expected many gelehus be will require, dois from floor to floor.) If a case might be.
Sometimes he asks for certain geisha ever enters there, she
The Jaw forbids ones by name. The restaurant doen so as a customer.
prizes. However, it was lator contacts the geltha houses.
One can find remarkable opf- explained to me that beside There is no fuch thing as tenca of Japan. Bach for me is each pachinko is a little shop
unostensibly entering a Japanese cafe or bar the pla-boli parlour, pachinko in which
"buy" restaurant and or
casually Japanese. Japanese men thare hack the goods with money, in attendance, with the Chinese a passion for nodlog geishas
On each of the a counter: The ordinary
oc- gambling. Japanece
Under
magnificent bowi the
Jiew WAS A Casionally seos a geleha paus divorce laws, whereby a woman newers arranged atording to the the rules of classical Japanese occur to him in a sukiya, which by on the street. (Before she can initiate proceedings, usually means a special little goes to the evening's party she husband's gambling propensities flower-arrangement-simply for
Japanese usually reports
are A.D. increasingly common adornment hendquarters.)
or
| house set aside in
gurden, where the family Amall groups of invited friends foregather from time to time to perform the tea ceremony.
In the title Teahouse of the August Moon-the play and the alm--the word "tea-house" WOS
rendered chava. But if you ask a Japanese what a chayo is be will variably tell you an old- If not prepaid a booking fee style "resting-house on a coun- try road or in the mountains, and he will be very vague about
of 60 conta is charged.
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CHINĂ LIGHT & POWER CO., LTD,
THE GEISHA
The truth la there are few of are more likely them left and such as there are, to be selling orangende and cider than tea.
A for the gelabe, (who seldom enters either a mukiya or a chays), you will flad her at the machlal or ochays. Soma Books and tourist literature translate this word as "toa- house," It is, however, a house that rents out rooms for dinner parties.
You can And geishas too in the private dining-rooms of any high-class restaurant, dispensing grace and encouraging merri- inent, organising party games and singing songs (often ribald Notice to Shareholders
Drea)
to the samisen. But in any case she will be there by NOTICE IS HEREBY invitation. When the host for GIVEN that the Thirty-fifth | the evening is making hia Ordinary Meeting of the Company's Shureholders will be, held at 12 o'clock noon on Saturday, 14th December, 1967, in the Company's Hong Kong Office, St. George's Buliding, 2nd floor, Chater Road, Vletoria, Hong Kong, for the purpose of:-
1. Receiving the Statement of Accounts and Report of the Directors for the year ended 30th Septem- ber, 1987,
2. Electing two Directors.
3. Appointing Auditora, and fixing their remuneration.
4. Confirming the Interim Dividend of 30 cents per share, and sunctioning the recommendation of the Directors as to the payment of В Final Dividend of 80 cents per share, in respect of fully paid "old" shares.
The Transfer Books and! Register of Shareholders will be closed 48 from 28th November, 1957, to 14th Decomber, 1957, both days' Inclusive.
Dividend Warrants will be available for collection, or will be dealt with in accor dance with standing instruc- tlons,
after 16th December, 1957.
он
Or
Dated at Hong Kong this 21st day of November, 1957. By Order of the Board of Directors,
A. A. M. ONSLOW, Secretary & Chief Accountant,
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES
"BATAAN"
Damaged cargo ex,this vessel will be marveyed by Mesars. Goddard & Douglar at Hott's Wharf from 10 am. on November 23, 1337, and songnees are requested to baya their "representatives present -during the survey.
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to her union
THE MAIKOS
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ground for divorce,
back.
purjours
more
GAMBLING
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Canberra, Nov, 20.
Two well-supported movements look like dividing Queensland, Australia's second largest State, into three separate States, cach larger than the British (zles,
years.
The Labour party, pledged to a unification polley, centrolled Queensland for more than
Its de- quarter of a century. feat at the Just cleciton gave the separate Blutes movement new unpelus. The Liberal- Country Party Promler has assured the movement that, on pelition he would set in motion the machinery for a referen- dum on the issue.
Separatists
› Earn More
Federal Aid
The movements are not now) tion of the existing colonies, it'į territory from a Blate, but only and have been revived | was deemed advisable to defur) with the consent of the Parilu- spasmodically over the past 20 betion on 'the petition lest il ment of the State affected,
Although delayed fedora.
the constitutional procedure is simple, Canberra in expected to continue to resist uny change. Those who favour Pin-ball
| preservation of the status quo numerous and
or 17sp
argue that any now Biale likely alle. I will describe the first
North Queensland today has a to be taken out of an exiting ono that I w. It opened to
higher income per head of one is certain to be relatively Le the street in about six parallel
footpath outde a
population than most established weak for many years. If it is chindon-va players, Geishas belong in the world laneways lined on either side group of
States, Northern Queenslanders to survive and prosper, it will of the wealthy and powerful. with pin-ball machines. Each the traditional advertisers of
varn more" then those in the need substantia! Federal', ald tightly packed Japani, marched up and down,
seath where the bulk of the through infancy and adolescence. They command high fees, re- laneway wha ctive coolly presents and load with devalces standing back to There were three men and a
State's population lives. Figures Now that State and Federal woman dressed in bright expensive lives.
motley, their fapes heavily
for 1354-55, the latest avaliable, budgets are so intricately inter- The young ones, the malkos,
powerred. They wore playing
for example, showed that in- locked, a substantial increase in lead laborious Ulves. They
a teasing music pn flute and
coma par had in the north was Federal aid for one arca of the spend many hours at classca
PALM (2301 sterling) and In Commonwealth can in practice and are at the behest of their
drum and cymbals. The woman carried the immense памет
the south £A220 (RÍ76). be provided only by curtailment elder sister-geishas. At parties
mache bend of an ogre.
The entire population of of what the rest is receiving. they may only pour the wing.
The A stairway opened in
Australion
Commo: Queensland is 1,383,533. the borus of
Since On the street But a clever full-seđżed geisha middle front leading down to a
wealth consists of five maluland | 1933, metropolitan Brisbane has trama and texts created can be the second wife of
States New South Wales, Vic- gained a quarter of a millon, or similar series of laneways in unmerciful din. In the pachinko leading politician or
business the barement. On either side of the rattle of the machines and oria, Queensland, South Aus- about the total north Queens- magnate and rule an ample this stairway two other steles the frequent ringing of the the Gland State
tralla, Western Australia-and land has gained since the first, Apart from allocating a sharo comer of the world,
of Tasmania. Fettlement thore. a host of machines on bells left only minute pockets The Northern Territory is under led to
to a particular area from the But the
Sir gelcha question, an upper level. Only the trou- of soundlessness. These
Entle Pare, A former common purae, there to involved would bring us far. There are series of the playeTA WITC
Alled by amply
the loud- Federal control. The separatists Prime Minister and Fodarul provistou for setting up a now many giria in restaurants and visible from the street,
pachinko's wont now northern and central Treasurer, former leader of the Government, speakers of the night-cluba who call themselves
Parliament and a new public On either File of the cen- musle machine delivering "The districts, established in Queens- Federal Country Party and now or are called geishas and are
tral stairways was o circular Bagona Boat Song" In Ameri-
in 1959, which is the a private member of the House service. Some people consider no such thing. The word has
centenary fountain where many jets of can clo every nooit and
Queensland's of Representatives, ts leading that there are easier, and lass become vulgarised, even In water fell continuously. Pleces cranny,
mutonomy from Now
South move in New South Wales to expensive, ways of getting freer Japanese. There are also first of soap iny around. When the
Waics. Only
pln-ball the
players
create a separate State within access to the common purse. class, second-class and third players
Federal erflies of the new leaving
New South Wales to be called were
they stood in an oasis of noiceless- Those who support the move New England. class geishas.
washed their hands here, true nec
State iden say that in the long quite inviolable. Itow
ment urge that a people who A last word about ten-houses. to the ancestral Japanese rite after row of them, these scores demanded, and
He argues that sub-division run, the north would probably received, the You will often find In Japanese of cleanliness.
of men and some women, they
of the Australian States to lose on the roundabouts what it cities places of refreshment, On either side of the foun- stood gazing intently into their right of self-government should smaller areas about the size of gained on the swings. It might both large
be ready to concede the same victorie is essential to prevent establish its own State govern- right to a nower generation. and small, calling tains again was a small counter machines, ficking rhythmically
ment and parliament at the ex- wastage of natural resources, the word "tes-room" is written balls to the players and themselves "tea-rooms." Usually where a girl sat both to sell with their right hands to
give loose the ball of fortune. They
As at present constituted, Had Australia been divided up pense of a drasile contraction of in English 35 well as in them the prizes. When they wore the air of bellovers,
Queczaland covers
870,300 Into States of the size of Vicits present representation and Japanese. These are a modern were lucky and the machines
square miles. The scal of Loria at the time of Federation, Infitience in Canberra. innovation the style of coughed out many balls,' they
The Commonwealth Constitu- Brisbane Government at
Is he declares
population
Committee has European cafes. (One in Tokyo could come and exchange them
more than 1,000 miles from the would now be approaching the lon Review
mark, 50,000,000
establish- people in the north who want | 50,0
whole beard claims for their own administration. agricultural resources would be ment of the two north Queens- under intensive cultivation, and load Blates and the New Eng- The most recent congress of elsewhere, as in Victorin today, lend district in Now Boula
there would not be a farm for Wales. from a railway.
од
.
were
Tokyo, The Metropolli On Monday
A POWERFUL DRAMA AND ADVENTURE IN TOKYO-
HAVE
seen the first reel of "Midnight Story" three times, and the film itself twice, Not, mind you. because I wanted to, but they were trying it out in the cinema when 1 to call one
Italy, France (Netherlands & Ger- happened many, Parcela direct), 5 p.m.
Кота, 0 р.м.
East, Great Britain & Europe, Re- Malava, Ceylon, Aden, Middle gistered & Parcels, 5 p.m.; Letters & Packets, 9 a.m.; Nóv. 22, 1937.
Macho. 6 p.m.
FRUDAY, NOVEMBER 22 By Air
morning.
When 1 saw the first
pre- sentation, the film was called,
"Yonghal, tankow. Kun- title than "Mi night Story If
Peking. ming. 1
G..
I
Formosa, Japan, Oklaana, Korea, I should have to reveal the plot,
11 ..
Guam. Hewall, U.B.A., 1 p.m.
Indo-China, France, 1 D..
land. 2 p.m.
Phlippines, Australia, New
Zes-
Britu
Formosa. 6. p.m.
Thailand. India, Pakistan, Middle Fant, Africa, Great Europe. 6 p.m
U.9 A., Canada, 6 p.m. lluwail, 8p.m.
3
by Surface China, People's Republic, 7 a.m. Malaya Ceylon, Auden, Middle East. Great Britain & Furope, 5.m.
Macao, 1 p.m. Indo-China, 2 p.m. Japan. Canada. 3 p.m. Philippines, 3 p.m. Macao, D.m.
NOTICE
IN THE ESTATE OF ULARLES GEORGE GRAY LATE OF 001 GRAYVIE'V APARTMENTS
MACDONNELL ROAD, TOELA IN THE COLONY OF
HONG KONG, MERCHANT. DECEASED,
All persons, having, claims against the estate of the aboventmed, des cessed are requested to acnis full particulars theroog forthwith to the undersigned.
i
Dated this 21st day of November.
1957.
DEACONS,
Solleiturs &-Notarios,
HOÀNG H
2 Des Voeux Town Central,
Solicitors for the Iascutors.
HARRY ODELL
Buys
"The Eyes of Father Tomásino,” and I reckon that a better
tried to qualify that remark,
And
If there is one thing critic should not do, it i to tell the story. You ask me is LT a good Alm
a
Yes, it is. A most unusual and film, In that it is violent primitive, but the action of the Alm arises from a tormented to this show and say, "here conscience. You can safely. E
15 something new, something uny usual,
I something
connoi reason out with confidence."
Robert Wagner and Joan Collins in a scene from "Stopover Tokyo,” which opene tonight at Rozy and Broadway.
set
on
as an Italian immigrant girl, Today they may be steals the heart of Tony Curtis, assignment in Europe, next Nor will the ending satisfy I stress the performances be- week they may be in Japan or So North Africa. It is all the you. Justice is not done. That cause the background la
not is, not earthly justice, but the authentic, and does ask fuck of the game, the greatest unusual slant is, a sort of jus- you to share your attention be- game in the world, as Rudyard tice is reached. The Star and (ween it and the actors. It is any Kipling called it. A more Metropole are showing this little Soho, or foreign quarter in literal interpretation of the
any foreign city. It could just title is when Robert as easily have taken place in an American agent, supposedly London, Liverpool, or New York, travelling to Korea, is required to stopover in Tokyo because It is powerful. The way G- he has lost a letter of entry bert Roland reveals the tar into Korea. menting agony of a man fight- ing for his happiness against his conscience, is something to be seen to be belleved..
NEW FILMS
ANTHONY
•
"your" - why
You will get caught up your self in the agonising psycholo- gical drama as he struggles for pence of soul.
It is a picture you canNCIE afford to miss.
A
This, however, is all part of a weli calculatod plan to get Information on a gang of international spies, headed by Famond O'Brien, who plan to sangainate the American High Commissioner in Tokyo,
Joan Collins, as the airline employee alda Wagner in his efforts to stop the attempted killing.
debut of Walter Reisch BS Z
The
12000
are
no
$6CITOPOVER Tokyo,” "Stopover Tokyo" mark the which opens this -producer and Richard L. Breca Universal – International
effort, evening at the Roxy and as a director.
¿BWO and us, I have stressed before, Broadway is a story of the
belweth this Company is emphasising its battle
counter-strengers to each other, how- -TO-NIGHT às 0.15 p.201..
atteinpt to capture reality."
espionage services and the ever, having previously teamed Ari, much hlia am Mingle” and Charis Harver.... praenla They do so with shue am intrigues of foreign powers. "Mating Seasic." special edition of Rediffusion's After you have seen you Starring Robert Wagner, Lute Bolour Was Dimed on The online production, in Do Biurie Time featuring the music could foly and
Collins, And Edmond Location quared certo ax milá veggel will of EDWARD'. VITO". (Harpist), | arend (Nórtis Sheré: là it call” O'Brien.. "Stopover Tokyo" is the most beautifalubuitry- in Japan. Bome of TO CALL ME Codasing de inchiding some of the work tie ada) in San Francisco. Gilbert the latest and anest of the around Kyoto, is shown in the Posaties at Hong Kong de Kowloon will play at his fecitals on
Mr Motor and outdoor wathes nimed by Twentieth Century
It i a belght ontértaining Jox.
male mim, and well worth en eva The gromial defacemes of the ing at the picture kitlo in to the work of: the nine, supportio: Ameylona, agánts whood: lyns by: Kan Booth, Valaiko Oyaln Another "goog - "performance are dedicated to
and octes Excedrifarija Pavan, who -AIDerica
Vime des Goown, at 10 am, on Saturday, Bed November end. Mon-
27, 20h“ Noveṇber, 1961 snd.com/ algodas cupresentatives are requested to be present during marvegi
BUTTERFIELD) ́R ́SWIRE, -
Akonta
3 Kara Man-OriABLET LANG, LAČ.
-29th and 20th November ›
the LOKE YEW HALL"
Book now at
International Wilman, Lád.
Rm 107, No. Ice House Burmet. Tela, 11897 JU 31480.
Holand walks KWAY with
acting bonours. Everyone Tuny Curtis dous," "hĩ đo anted, from the two perform- anoes side by side, and make LP YOUR KOTA KINA My
Joan
land
of
northern New Staters decided on Burdekin as a name for their area If or when It is cut adrift. The central district will be known as Capricornia. If it becomes a separate State,
Capricornia
In the
har
the
and
Dew
If, in time, petitions are filed Australla's population now is and referenda are launched, just short of 10,000,000.
there will be no dearth of avalls.
authoritative
Sighting
The plan for a new State in able New South Wales is by no material for advocales or op- means dead, but more pressure ponents.China Mall Special, is being exerted at present in regard to the Queensland pro- posals.
Although much has been done
vast Burdekin area, in the past 30 years to achieve there is less than one person the dreams of the New Staters. to the square mile. If separa- and at last there la support by
The tion planning is approved, the
Slate Government Southern border of Burdekin Queensland, it will take much effort to transfer them from approximately
be
an
would straight line from the const at the academie to the sphere of Palmerston, a few miles south practical politics.
Advocates
RADIO Hongkong
Com-
The Philharmonia
8.30 pm, Thursday Club lażęcaned by Robert Acheson; 6, Tima Bignal, Portuguese Ball Hour: 6.50, in the Groove; 8.58, Weather Time Signal.
News 7 There are still differences of orchestra: 2.30, The Mind of Mat
mentary: 1.ID. opinion, for instance, between A Hongkong Univarity symposium the advocates of the new states in which four scientists discuss their of Burdekin and Capricornlu individual ylewpolate.
Proper Study of "Mankind"; "8.05, There is overwhelming agree-le with the Lyons -Danger Is
*The
of Mackay, west to the Northern Territory border. The area en- closed by this line and the coastal boundaries would be 272,000 square miles or about. iwice the grea of England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ire land and Elre together.
The new State of Capricornia ment on principles, but there my Job: 8.35, Rise Stevans and In central Queensland would be are difficulties to be overcome Robert Merril) in musical comedy almost a rectangle bounded by in drawing new boundaries soos: 8.56. Weather Report: 9, Time Signal, News and Home News the coast, the southern bound along thousands of miles, Both
from Britain; 0.15, "Asia"-elected ary of Burdekin
Extracts from opéran, by Vardim and a line areas, for axemple, would like arbitrarily drawn west from to include Mackay and its rich Programme 3 (125-1003); 2015, U.N. the court north of Bundabery surrounding districts, and the sted by Gene Kellys 10.20. Juke
atory--Fight into Tomorrow, NKC- the Northern Territory people of Mackay and district Box; 10.40, A Book #1 Your Bed- border,
also have views on where they alde Three Men in a Best"
to
'new
Although the demand for a wish to be placed politically and
State in the north of economically. Queensland has been strongest
and only when, such in the past 30 years, the decurs differences have been adjusted of this area for self-government and petilloners can speak with dates back more than 70 years.
volec,
the an unlied
Government A petition 420 feet long and Queensland State bearing them names of 10,000 receive petitions and arrange a persons was presented to the referendum.
British Parliament in the days of Queen Victorin.
con
If the answer to the referen- dum favours separation, there
of it, but as strangements were ton provides that a new State already being made for federa-'may be formed by suparation of
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REDIFFUSION
a pm, fomartin Cycles-delaciona
The Colonial Secretary of the would be no Federal constitu- from "om of Norway" with Zawe The Constitu-rence Brooks, Helena Bits and dny advised the Queen in favour tonal barrier,
fember of the Original cast;, 945. Noraline - Featuring the Airiens Trio Les Paul Mid Mary Ford, thugh Waddill and the Novaltine Trio: Teatime Reṭdezvour; ·430, "Vocsity Yours-Starring Joni James and Cornell; 5. Children's Cortat-Pre- sented by Aunts, Ray; - 230, Teen Tune-Provented by Befty Souza; Walls Time: E., Birthday Mailbag: 6.00. Tropicana; 6.45. Story of Jane Armitage: 7. Time "Signal, and News: 180 Weather Furoomt, An- nquaspernenbe and Interlude: 735, Botryant Konge -196. Interlude for Marlowwith "Truddy Albertina the French Harpi, 143, Les Brown and his Band of Benown). 6, Personally Parade-Gonion. Maniae: 8.1), Cha tol: Mhowzi: 330, Boston. Blacktai
KERNIDA: 8.18. käpals Tine--Clansion) - Posto - produced) and presvaled. Charles - Itarvert 910, forbidden i
Heals and his : Bustoz 23; With, KremninZANĮ adults. 12:2lidn
WHAT'S ON TONIGHT
KING'S & PRINCESS: "Gunfight at the O.K
Corral Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas in the wildest gunfight ever. QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA: "Shoot-out At-Medicine Bend." Randolph Scott in the 'Coodies beat the Hadies' type of picture.
ROXY & BROADWAY: "Apache Warrior." Keith Larsen, and Jim Davis. The choice of staying with the Whites of his own people, “Stopover Tokyo" Bobart Wagner, Joan Collins sha Edmond O'Brien. Adventure in Japan.
STAR & METROPOLE: ""The Midnight" Story." Tony Curtis, Marišu Pávia And Gilbert Roland. A powerful drama.
HOOVER & LIBERTY: “Action Of The Tiger Van Johnson, Martins Cardi and Herbert Lous in
Communist Albania.
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